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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.

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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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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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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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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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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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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium.
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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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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
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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.
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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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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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The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.
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He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good
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We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.
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Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.
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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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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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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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I am none of these; I’m a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.
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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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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.
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For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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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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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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