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If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

Primo Levi

The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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Against Aim Best Death Defense Life
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
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Belong Event Live Naratte Perfection
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
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Antithesis Consider Discover Everyone Few Happiness Later Life Pause Perfect Sooner Unreliable
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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Become Civilised Consider Country Efficiency Lawm Hinder Man More Weak Wek Wisdom
What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
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Acquire Barbarism Few Judge Knowledge Perhaps Period Physical Pure Return Very
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
I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.
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Amaze Constantly Inhumanity Man
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
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Death Dignity Expect Few Know Men Often Whom
I’m a libertine, but it’s not my specialty.
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Libertine Specially
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
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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Accompany Anyone Experience Exposure Gossip Nature Obey relief Satisfy Transmitting
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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Cease Enemy Error See Way
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
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
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.
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Bad Convince Difficult Honest Writer
More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
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Act Ask Believe Dangerous More Question Ready

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