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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (/ˈɛli viˈzɛl/, Hebrew: אֱלִיעֶזֶר וִיזֶל‎, ’Ēlí‘ézer Vízēl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Broken, Heart, Hearts, Mean, Retelling, Thousand

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

Concerned, Humanity, Today

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Opposite, Opposites, People, Suffering, Think, Thinking

[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter. ] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.

Book, Everything, Priorities, Say, Task, Two

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

Anger, Faith, Rises

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

Mean, Mute, Religious, Stifle, Think, Thinking

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Killers, Problem, Thought Provoking, Victims

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Ambition, Political, Persons, Ambitions, Beware

Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.

Capable, Fun, Injustice, Men, Possible, Thinking

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Arrogant, Doe, True, True Knowledge, Unless

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Conformist, Easy, Injustice, Scream, See

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

Alone, Forgetting, Lend, Needs, Quality, Voice

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

Found, Haven, Meant, Once Upon A Time, Refugee

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Dream, Dreams, May, Mutilated, Vision, Visions

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

Existed, Men, Needs, Stranger, Thrust, World

One person of integrity can make a difference.

Difference, Differences, Integrity, Making A Difference, Person

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

Dream, Dreaming, Loving, Night, Thinking

Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

Desire, Evil, Heaven, Men, Powers, Same

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Pictures, Thousand, Word, Worth

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

Epic, History, Quality, Story, Yams

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