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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Humanist
Journalist
Judaic Scholar
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Activist
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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..you do not leave a library if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.
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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
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First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.
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How can a human being be illegal?
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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.
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