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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.

Elie Wiesel

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
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
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
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
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
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.
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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Myself Person
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
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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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place 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

I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.

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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.

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