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If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

Primo Levi

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.
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Above Beyond Experience Listen Must Personal
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law.
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Back Chemistry Come Envelop Future Indefinite Life Potential Represent Torn Volute
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Auschwitz Can Country God Not Person Place So
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
Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.
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Air Dream Equality Everyone Everything Future Mythical Past Perverse Redemption Slavery Suitable
I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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Enough Kill Known Live Myself
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
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Beautiful House Inside Live More Picturesque Simple Skin Sturdy
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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Carry Impress Leave Must Return Sign Skin Together Will World
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
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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Call Consider Coward Defender Ennoblement Exatiation Lascivious Lazy Mendacious More Painful Stupidity Told Vice Violent Weakness
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
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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Against Aim Best Death Defense Life
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
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
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Can Dead Demand Live More Wait
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
More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
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Act Ask Believe Dangerous More Question Ready

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