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He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

Primo Levi

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
Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it’s supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There’s nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.
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Anything One Only Route Sadder Suppose Trainmleave Voice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics.
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Chemistry Exist Further Go Satisfy Theorem Therefore
The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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Attractiveness Butterfly Color Contribute Deeper Derive Motive Only Symmetry
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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Duty End Foret Make Mist Privilege Righteous Underserved War
Everybody is somebody’s Jew.
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Everybody Jew Somebody
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
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
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Death Dignity Expect Few Know Men Often Whom

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