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One Quotes by Primo Levi
- The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,…
- 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.…
- Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will…
- 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…
- Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
- 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…
- There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
- To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists…
- 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 is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated…
- 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…
- Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive…
- 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…
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