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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Education Learning Substitute Word
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
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
Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word

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