The aims of life are the best defense against death.
PRIMO LEVIThere is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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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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But they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith “in the validity of Maxwell’s or Boltzmann’s equations,” and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.
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A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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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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I’m a libertine, but it’s not my specialty.
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We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses.
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We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man’s presumption made of man in Auschwitz
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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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The principle of order in me, around me, and in the world… I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: “I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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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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The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
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