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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.

Elie Wiesel

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
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
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
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
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
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
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
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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
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
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open
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
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person

My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.

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