Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELIn the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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