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Elie Wiesel

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
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
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
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
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
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
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
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
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
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
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility

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