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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.

Primo Levi

Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.
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Abdication Authority Colossal Cowardice Everything Human Itself Mask Obtuse Outside Rejection Root Solidarity Suffer Sweep
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:.
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Impunity Known Life Live Need Order Soil Too Turn Wheel
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.
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Ferocious Given Glimpse History Life Sometimes State
Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
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Centaur Divine Dust Flesh Inspirational Man Mind
At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.
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Clarity Country Origin People Person Physics Strenuous West
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light.
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After Become Before Bettie God Love Many Million Particular Pass Planet Year
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
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses.
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Camp Survive True Witness
The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
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Both Deprive Everything Extreme Infinite Nature Obstacle Prevent Realization Sam State
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
This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in charge of my writing, in a gigantic minuscule game which nobody has yet described.
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Atom Belong Brain Cell Described Game Minuscule Nobody Question Writing
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
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn’t always equal to oneself.
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Always Country Equal Oneself People Perhaps Person Story Told
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Auschwitz Can Country God Not Person Place So
I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself
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Enough Kill Known Live Myself
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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Carry Impress Leave Must Return Sign Skin Together Will World

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