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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.

Primo Levi

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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Accompany Anyone Experience Exposure Gossip Nature Obey relief Satisfy Transmitting
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.
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Above Beyond Experience Listen Must Personal
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
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
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
My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
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Baptized Carry Left My Number Tattoo Until Die
A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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Dammed Himself Man Mutitate Well
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
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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Almost Happened Holocaust Justify More Must One Perhaps Understand
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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Bestial Carry Conclusion Country Defeat Degradation Victorious Work
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It’s not a philosophical virtue. It’s a habit of having my second reactions before the first.
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Animosity Country Lack Many Praise Time Towards
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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Become Civilised Consider Country Efficiency Lawm Hinder Man More Weak Wek Wisdom
I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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Enough Kill Known Live Myself
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable.
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Around Happen Inevocable Presence Sense Them
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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Again Clean Contract Cot Create Effort Enough Force Human never Nothing Pain Potential Prove Species
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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Admirable Afraid Bold Deeply Drawing Either Look Noble Seen Void

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