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.
Elie Wiesel
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- Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
- Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
- I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
- 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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