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.
PRIMO LEVII am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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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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Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.
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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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Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.
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The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.
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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.
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We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last – the power to refuse our consent.
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The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
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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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For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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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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The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
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He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good
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