Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
ELIE WIESELMy faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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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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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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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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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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