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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.

Elie Wiesel

I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESEL

Feeling Myself Understand Writing
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
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
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
Think higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL

Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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
ELIE WIESEL

Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word

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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