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Elie Wiesel

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
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 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
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
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Imagination Invention Memories Myself People Time
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
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
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment

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