When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
ELIE WIESELTo forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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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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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
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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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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