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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Elie Wiesel

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESEL

Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
ELIE WIESEL

Baby Better Burn God Yourself
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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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
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
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
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Failure Injustice Power Protest Time
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
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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Desire Ideas Memories People Shadow Surround Thinking Truth
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
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
Every moment is a new beginning.
ELIE WIESEL

Beginning Moments Perspective Time

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