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.
ELIE WIESELWhat hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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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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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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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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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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