"What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal."
— The Holocaust

January 1, 1970

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Elie Wiesel, after being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O: The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)