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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

Elie Wiesel

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 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
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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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
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
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
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
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
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
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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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
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
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself 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
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing

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