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Primo Levi

Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species – we, in short – had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act.
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Again Clean Contract Cot Create Effort Enough Force Human never Nothing Pain Potential Prove Species
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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Collect Door Experiment Front Grief Group Newmancient Ourselves
Everybody is somebody’s Jew.
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Everybody Jew Somebody
The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.
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Blow Change Feel Gift Harsh Occasionally Only Sea Strong
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law.
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Back Chemistry Come Envelop Future Indefinite Life Potential Represent Torn Volute
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.
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Ferocious Given Glimpse History Life Sometimes State
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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Fallacious Human Instrument Marvelous Memory
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
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light.
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After Become Before Bettie God Love Many Million Particular Pass Planet Year
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
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
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
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Can Dead Demand Live More Wait
The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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Attractiveness Butterfly Color Contribute Deeper Derive Motive Only Symmetry
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Auschwitz Can Country God Not Person Place So
Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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Auschwitz Country Deny People Person Ready Remake
At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.
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Clarity Country Origin People Person Physics Strenuous West

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