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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.

Primo Levi

Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don’t know it and feel safe.
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Allows Break Frayed Ignorance Know Mountain Our Rope Usm Live
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
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
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
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Bestial Carry Conclusion Country Defeat Degradation Victorious Work
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
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Death Dignity Expect Few Know Men Often Whom
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
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
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
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.
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Fallacious Human Instrument Marvelous Memory
For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
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Creation Deny Dignity Hero Intellectual Man People Place Proiledge Science Source
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
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
If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one’s desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.
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Greater Sorrow Happy Misery Profound Remember Satisfactory State Time True
A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?
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Dammed Himself Man Mutitate Well
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
The problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete.
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Classified Complete Different Each Matter Mystery never Opinion Other Problem Scientist Solve

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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