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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Elie Wiesel

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
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
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place 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
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
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
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
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
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Group Person Suffering Yourself
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

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