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— Elie Wiesel"Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us."
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To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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