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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Elie Wiesel

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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Crime Human Humanity Represent
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

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