It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
PRIMO LEVIAnyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
More Primo Levi Quotes
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We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last – the power to refuse our consent.
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My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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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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A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.
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I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer.
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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.
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At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.
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Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable.
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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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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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It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.)
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