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

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: Bring Changing Changing The World Life Must Once Protect World You

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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Topics: Anything Deeply Even Friendship Life Love Marks More Never Obsession Risks Sharing Than

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My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: About Became Believe Changed Disappointment Experience Given Greatest Message Nothing Those Through Tried Us War Who Write I Believe I Believe That

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

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: Doing Give Indifferent Life Meaning Obligation Our Overcome Passive

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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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Topics: Another Gift Give God Hope Like Only Peace

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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.

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Topics: Again Anyone Because Betrays Dead Decided Devote Does Felt Having Life My Life Owe Remember Something Story Survived Telling Them Who

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Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

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Topics: God Man Relationship Religion

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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.

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: Beings Come Despair Given Hope Human Human Beings Just Only Other Too

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

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: Anger Been Closer Faith God Him Lost Moments Protest Reason Sometimes

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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: Adventure Between Haunted Horror Human May Remember Seemed Story Swing Thrown Universe Where I Remember

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 30th, 1928

Died: July 2nd, 2016

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