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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Primo Levi

I’m a libertine, but it’s not my specialty.
PRIMO LEVI

Libertine Specially
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
Everybody is somebody’s Jew.
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Everybody Jew Somebody
Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
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Along Bear Each Friend Imprint Met Trace Way
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
PRIMO LEVI

Death Dignity Expect Few Know Men Often Whom
For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
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Creation Deny Dignity Hero Intellectual Man People Place Proiledge Science Source
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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Age Country Mother People Person Province Reason Speak Think Today
I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.
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Amaze Constantly Inhumanity Man
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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Actual Good Lucky Maelstorm Man Memory None Normal Preserve Curiosity Virtue
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.
PRIMO LEVI

Bad Convince Difficult Honest Writer
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
In 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:.
PRIMO LEVI

Impunity Known Life Live Need Order Soil Too Turn Wheel
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.
PRIMO LEVI

Back Chemistry Come Envelop Future Indefinite Life Potential Represent Torn Volute
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.
PRIMO LEVI

Collect Door Experiment Front Grief Group Newmancient Ourselves
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics.
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Chemistry Exist Further Go Satisfy Theorem Therefore
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
PRIMO LEVI

Can Dead Demand Live More Wait

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