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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
Love
Hate
Indifference
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life
Meaning
Obligation
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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Quality
Deeds
Grace
Moments
Words
Peace is our gift to each other.
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Peace
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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Memory
Want
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Life
World
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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Soul
Spirit
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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Beginning
Difference
Result
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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Time
Injustice
May
Protest
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
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Knowledge
Philosophy
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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Experience
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
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Despair
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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Anger
Faith
God
Moments
Protest
Reason
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair
Duty
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel
Indifference