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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
— Toni Morrison
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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but…
— Paulo Coelho
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By…
— Gerhard Richter
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Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for…
— Unknown Author
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Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
— Mark Doty
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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell.…
— Edith Sitwell
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My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...
— Gerhard Richter
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
— Marcel Proust
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You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
— Rick Riordan
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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and…
— Primo Levi
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities,…
— Charles Dickens
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