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Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

Primo Levi

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
Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
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Age Country Mother People Person Province Reason Speak Think Today
We have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone.
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Anyone Collectively Event Foreseen Fundamental Precisely Unexpect Witness
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
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.
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Dangerous Exist Few Monster Number Too Truly
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
Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
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Along Bear Each Friend Imprint Met Trace Way
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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Accuse Brain Contrary Crime Have Heart Kidney Ling Nothing Says Weak Wek
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
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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Honest Nothing Probably Said Sue
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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Day Enter Larger Liberate Live Nonbelievever
More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
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Act Ask Believe Dangerous More Question Ready
For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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Aften Easily Himself Loses
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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Accuse Another Brain Contrary Crime Hurt Kidney Ling Say Weak
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
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

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