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.
ELIE WIESELFor 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
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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