This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
ELIE WIESEL
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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