Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELAn indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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.
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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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