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I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Elie Wiesel

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
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 forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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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Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word
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
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
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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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
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
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
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
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
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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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Education Learning Substitute Word
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Imagination Invention Memories Myself People Time
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong

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