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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
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
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
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
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
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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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

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