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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

Primo Levi

It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.
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Again Core Everywhere Happen Happier Say
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
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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Away Close Grimace Mind Must One Resist Temptation Tempted Turn
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
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
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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Back Chemistry Come Envelop Future Indefinite Life Potential Represent Torn Volute
Everybody is somebody’s Jew.
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Everybody Jew Somebody
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
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
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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Believe Century Countries End Even Future Humanity Uncertain Life Millenium More Most Prosperous Quality Sufficient
To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.
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Almost Country Create Destroy Difficult Easy Gaze Nothing Judgement Man Quick Succeed
A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.
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Adversary Always Author Battle Conflictual Efrat Form Indeed Life Only Say Scientist Victory
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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Beautiful House Inside Live More Picturesque Simple Skin Sturdy
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.
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Exile Immediate Most Over Prevalence Rael Unreal Uproot
I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.
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Amaze Constantly Inhumanity Man
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century.
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Collect Door Experiment Front Grief Group Newmancient Ourselves

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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