I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESELTo forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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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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