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One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one’s mind: this is a temptation one must resist.

Primo Levi

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
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.
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Ferocious Given Glimpse History Life Sometimes State
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics.
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Chemistry Exist Further Go Satisfy Theorem Therefore
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
The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.
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Among Certain Confining Industry New Parasite Scale Themselves Thing Time Transquily
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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Classified Complete Different Each Matter Mystery never Opinion Other Problem Scientist Solve
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
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
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
At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.
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Clarity Country Origin People Person Physics Strenuous West
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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Abyss Again Aggregate Believe Children Done Grudge Must Neither Overwhelm Say Think Tomorrow Viciousness
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
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Belong Event Live Naratte Perfection
For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
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Creation Deny Dignity Hero Intellectual Man People Place Proiledge Science Source
More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
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Act Ask Believe Dangerous More Question Ready
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.
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Dangerous Exist Few Monster Number Too Truly
Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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Auschwitz Country Deny People Person Ready Remake

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