Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
Peace is our gift to each other.
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
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.
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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.
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
"Not to remember is not an option."
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