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From Quotes by Primo Levi
- The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did…
- They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would…
- To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded.…
- 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…
- Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate…
- For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those…
- 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…
- Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness…
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