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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

Elie Wiesel

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
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
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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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
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
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
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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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
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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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong

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