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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.

Elie Wiesel

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
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
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
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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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
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
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
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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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
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
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

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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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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