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I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

Primo Levi

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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Auschwitz Country Deny People Person Ready Remake
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
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
I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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Enough Kill Known Live Myself
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
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
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Belong Event Live Naratte Perfection
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
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
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
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.
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Dangerous Exist Few Monster Number Too Truly
In fact, the existence of the death squads had a meaning, a message: ‘We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish, and we do so wish, we can destroy not only your bodies, but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours.
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Better Body Death Destroy Existence Fact Master Message Our Soul Squad Wish
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
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
A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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Dammed Himself Man Mutitate Well
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
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

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