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The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.

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Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.
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To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one’s becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.
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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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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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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.
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I’m a libertine, but it’s not my specialty.
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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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More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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But they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith “in the validity of Maxwell’s or Boltzmann’s equations,” and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.
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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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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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The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
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A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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