"In order for the wheel to turn, for……" — Primo Levi
"In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable."
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58 Quotes by Primo Levi
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore…
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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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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll…
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes…
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as…
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of…
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less…
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
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You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and…
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning…
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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so…
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