Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELNever shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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