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Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.

Primo Levi

The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.
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Among Certain Confining Industry New Parasite Scale Themselves Thing Time Transquily
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.
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Admirable Afraid Bold Deeply Drawing Either Look Noble Seen Void
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
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
I’m a libertine, but it’s not my specialty.
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Libertine Specially
For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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Aften Easily Himself Loses
A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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Dammed Himself Man Mutitate Well
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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Become Civilised Consider Country Efficiency Lawm Hinder Man More Weak Wek Wisdom
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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Acceptance Battle Common DNA Faith Molecular Strong Structure Together Validity
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
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.
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Bad Convince Difficult Honest Writer
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.
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Cloth Deprive Everyone Everything Habit Imagine Love Man Same Short Time House
Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it’s supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There’s nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.
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Anything One Only Route Sadder Suppose Trainmleave Voice
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.
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Conquer Matter Necessary Ourselves Poetry Understand Universe
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 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

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