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Elie Wiesel

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.
ELIE WIESEL

Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
ELIE WIESEL

Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESEL

Forever Oneself Place Question
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.
ELIE WIESEL

Allow Difference Hate Love Power
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
ELIE WIESEL

Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
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
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESEL

Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
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.
ELIE WIESEL

Crime Human Humanity Represent
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESEL

Difference Integrity Myself Person
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESEL

Human Man Suffering Woman
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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Himself Place Refugee Time
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESEL

Feeling Myself Understand Writing
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.
ELIE WIESEL

Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
ELIE WIESEL

Believe God Illusion Man Spark

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