Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.
PRIMO LEVIPerhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.
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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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It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
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We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.
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My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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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.
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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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Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
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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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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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We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.
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The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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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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Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
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