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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

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
Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
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
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
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
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
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
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
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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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
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
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason
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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