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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Elie Wiesel

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
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Group Person Suffering 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
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

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