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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Elie Wiesel

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
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
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
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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Education Learning Substitute Word
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
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
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 moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
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
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

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