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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Primo Levi

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
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
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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Fallacious Human Instrument Marvelous Memory
Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.
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All Assist Betrayer Came Dawn Destruction Enemy Like New Rose Seem Sun
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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Admirable Afraid Bold Deeply Drawing Either Look Noble Seen Void
Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
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Along Bear Each Friend Imprint Met Trace Way
If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one’s desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.
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Greater Sorrow Happy Misery Profound Remember Satisfactory State Time True
Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
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Centaur Divine Dust Flesh Inspirational Man Mind
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics.
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Chemistry Exist Further Go Satisfy Theorem Therefore
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
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
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
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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Air Around Auschwitz Away Country Died Foolish Infection Linger Outside People Person Plague Us
A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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Dammed Himself Man Mutitate Well
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify.
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Almost Happened Holocaust Justify More Must One Perhaps Understand
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.
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Always Country Equal Oneself People Perhaps Person Story Told

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