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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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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
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The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...
— Irving Berlin
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Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like…
— Wallace Stevens
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The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is…
— William H. Gass
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Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing…
— William Devane
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The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.
— David Horowitz
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You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent…
— Irving Berlin
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth…
— Friedrich Schiller
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We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost.…
— Alice McDermott
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The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.
— Bantu Holomisa
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Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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