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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Elie Wiesel

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
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
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
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
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
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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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
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
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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
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
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past

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