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The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

Primo Levi

Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.
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Detestable Everybody Fascism Forbid Immature Same Virtue
The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.
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Blow Change Feel Gift Harsh Occasionally Only Sea Strong
I am none of these; I’m a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.
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Actual Good Lucky Maelstorm Man Memory None Normal Preserve Curiosity Virtue
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one’s own.
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Honest Nothing Probably Said Sue
If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?
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Child Eat Give Going Kill Today Tomorrow
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Auschwitz Can Country God Not Person Place So
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed:.
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Impunity Known Life Live Need Order Soil Too Turn Wheel
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses.
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Camp Survive True Witness
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don’t know it and feel safe.
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Allows Break Frayed Ignorance Know Mountain Our Rope Usm Live
It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children.
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Abyss Again Aggregate Believe Children Done Grudge Must Neither Overwhelm Say Think Tomorrow Viciousness
I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.
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Amaze Constantly Inhumanity Man
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law.
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Back Chemistry Come Envelop Future Indefinite Life Potential Represent Torn Volute
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.
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Air Around Auschwitz Away Country Died Foolish Infection Linger Outside People Person Plague Us
For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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Aften Easily Himself Loses
Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
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Age Country Mother People Person Province Reason Speak Think Today
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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Against Aim Best Death Defense Life

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