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He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

Primo Levi

Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.
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Detestable Everybody Fascism Forbid Immature Same Virtue
We have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone.
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Anyone Collectively Event Foreseen Fundamental Precisely Unexpect Witness
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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Cease Enemy Error See Way
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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Bottom Luck never Prevarication Return Seen Skill Touch Wordless
For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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Aften Easily Himself Loses
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
My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
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Baptized Carry Left My Number Tattoo Until Die
The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.
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Abominable Alchemist Chemistry Hodgepodge Idea Ignorable Instead Interest Language Least Magician Organ Swindles Wuiivocal
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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Accompany Anyone Experience Exposure Gossip Nature Obey relief Satisfy Transmitting
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.
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Accuse Brain Contrary Crime Have Heart Kidney Ling Nothing Says Weak Wek
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
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
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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Believe Century Countries End Even Future Humanity Uncertain Life Millenium More Most Prosperous Quality Sufficient
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
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
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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Beg Cloth Detect Distress Force Greatly Message Reader Search Term

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