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The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

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At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.
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Clarity Country Origin People Person Physics Strenuous West
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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Bad Convince Difficult Honest Writer
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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Around Bud Everything Granite Principle Spring Swell Understand Watch World
I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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Enough Kill Known Live Myself
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light.
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After Become Before Bettie God Love Many Million Particular Pass Planet Year
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
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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Adversary Always Author Battle Conflictual Efrat Form Indeed Life Only Say Scientist Victory
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
To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one’s becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.
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Become Consist Danger Dangerous Give Gratifying Nam Island Name One Think
To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.
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Almost Country Create Destroy Difficult Easy Gaze Nothing Judgement Man Quick Succeed
Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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Auschwitz Country Deny People Person Ready Remake
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.
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Conquer Matter Necessary Ourselves Poetry Understand Universe
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good
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Good Hardly Heart Language Read Spoken
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.
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Cloth Deprive Everyone Everything Habit Imagine Love Man Same Short Time House
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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Ferocious Given Glimpse History Life Sometimes State
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

The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

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