One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one’s mind: this is a temptation one must resist.
PRIMO LEVIIn history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.
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The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.
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I’m a libertine, but it’s not my specialty.
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We have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.
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A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.
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Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.
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We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man’s presumption made of man in Auschwitz
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If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?
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For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
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The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.
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