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• Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

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  Lying

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.110, Schocken

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• Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

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  Destiny, Turns, Humans

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• 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.

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  Injustice, Scream, Easy

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

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  Past, Want, My Past

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• I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

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  Believe, Past, Mankind

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• A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

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  Religious, Answers, Elected Officials

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

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  War, Believe, Gun

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

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  Witness

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• If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.

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  Pain, Loneliness, Suffering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I do not believe in collective guilt.

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  Believe, Guilt, Collectives

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

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  Questions And Answers, Answers, Eternity

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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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  Children, World, Changing The World

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

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  Men, Compassion, Light

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• My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

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  Understood

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

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  Children, Blue, Sky

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

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  Pain, Loss, People

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

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  Once Upon A Time, Found, Refugee

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

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  Giving, Praying, Give Me Strength

  Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

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• Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

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  Problem, Enough, Should

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• My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

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  Divorce, Arguing, Life Is

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• 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.

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  Voice, Quality, Needs

  Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

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  Mean, Thinking, Offering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

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  Country, Home, Mind

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

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  Secret, Triumph, Treasure

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• I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

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  Mean, Communism, Nazi

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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