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Primo Levi has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary…
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his…
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak…
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as…
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful…
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be…
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the…
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Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic…
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I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.
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An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong.
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Technically, we're all half centaur.
— Nick Offerman
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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or…
— Ezra Pound
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
— Aristophanes
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Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and…
— C.S. Lewis
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Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
— Primo Levi
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Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled,…
— Eoin Colfer
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I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't…
— Eoin Colfer
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Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I…
— Eoin Colfer
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He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you…
— Eoin Colfer
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Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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