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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... Advanced art today is no longer a cause – it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
Elie Wiesel
Born: September 30, 1928
Died: July 2, 2016 (aged 87)
Bio: Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel is a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Laureate.
Known for:
- Night (1956)
- Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995)
- The Night Trilogy (1962)
- A Beggar in Jerusalem (1970)
- The Jews of silence (1966)
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