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Elie Wiesel
September 30, 1928 -
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

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

   

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

   

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

   

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

   

Peace is our gift to each other.

   

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

   

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

   

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

   

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

   

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

   

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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