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Elie Wiesel

(1928-) Author, Nobel Peace Prize 1986 (born in Romania) survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust.

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God made man because He loves stories.

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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

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There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

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Quotes from the news wire:

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

– Elie Wiesel

Found on CNN 3 years ago

Don't go to Bitburg, that place is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.

– Elie Wiesel

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

'Psychopath' - it's too nice a word for him.

– Elie Wiesel

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

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