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Elie Wiesel

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Born Sunday 30 September 1928, died Saturday 2 July 2016

Professions: Activist, Author, Novelist, Writer

Nationality: American

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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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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

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

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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

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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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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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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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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

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I write to understand as much as to be understood.

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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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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

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Some stories are true that never happened.

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