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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.

Elie Wiesel

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
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
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
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
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
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
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
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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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man

In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.

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