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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
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
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
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
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
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
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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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
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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Believe God Illusion Man Spark

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