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My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
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In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
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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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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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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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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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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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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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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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