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  1. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
  2. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
  3. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
  4. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
  5. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
  6. There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
  7. I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
  8. 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.
  9. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
  10. I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

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