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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.

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What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
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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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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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We have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone.
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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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Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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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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We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses.
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The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.
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He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good
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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium.
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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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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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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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