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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
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
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

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