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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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Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species – we, in short – had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.
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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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Enough Kill Known Live Myself
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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Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization.
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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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Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify.
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Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
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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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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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I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.
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Amaze Constantly Inhumanity Man
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.
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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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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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