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.
ELIE WIESELHuman suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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