This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.
PRIMO LEVITo be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
More Primo Levi Quotes
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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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Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
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The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
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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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It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.
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The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.
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Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.
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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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Everybody is somebody’s Jew.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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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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What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.
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To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
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