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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.

Primo Levi

Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.
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Air Dream Equality Everyone Everything Future Mythical Past Perverse Redemption Slavery Suitable
Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.
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Detestable Everybody Fascism Forbid Immature Same Virtue
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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Certain Condemned Consent Death Deprive Every Expose Insult Last Possess Power Refuse Right Slave Strength
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
For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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Aften Easily Himself Loses
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.
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Above Beyond Experience Listen Must Personal
The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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Carve Change Erased Incorporation Increase Moemeory Often Stone Tend Year
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
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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Carry Impress Leave Must Return Sign Skin Together Will World
Everybody is somebody’s Jew.
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Everybody Jew Somebody
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
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
A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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Dammed Himself Man Mutitate Well
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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Both Deprive Everything Extreme Infinite Nature Obstacle Prevent Realization Sam State
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one’s own.
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Honest Nothing Probably Said Sue
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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Cease Enemy Error See Way

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