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Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.

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A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.
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The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
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An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.
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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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One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one’s mind: this is a temptation one must resist.
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The principle of order in me, around me, and in the world… I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: “I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.
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More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
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This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in charge of my writing, in a gigantic minuscule game which nobody has yet described.
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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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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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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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The problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete.
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It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
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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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