From the New York Times, a quote from the late Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor, and the author of Night, one of the most brilliant, heart wrenching books I have ever read:

“If I survived, it must be for some reason,” he told Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times in an interview in 1981. “I must do something with my life. It is too serious to play games with anymore, because in my place, someone else could have been saved. And so I speak for that person. On the other hand, I know I cannot.”

He spoke, we listened, the world has lost one of its very best people.

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