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Nobel Prize Speech By Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Prize speech explores the relationship between hope, despair and memory. Wiesel then claims that the most important virtue is hope. He states, "just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future. Wiesel thinks that without hope, we run the risk of succumbing to despair and that hope is necessary for enabling us to surmount hardship. Hope, is the belief in mankind and a belief in the goodness of mankind. Hope is also synonymous with faith, as it allows man to overcome adversity and to deal with suffering. Wiesel claims that despair is what occurs in the absence of hope. (FIND QUOTE) Despair is life without hope. This is what occurred during the Holocaust
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