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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
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
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Imagination Invention Memories Myself People Time
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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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
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
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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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

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