To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.
PRIMO LEVIIn order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed:.
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If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?
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We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.
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Everybody is somebody’s Jew.
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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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Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
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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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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real.
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Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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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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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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A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.
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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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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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