"The bond between a man and his profession……" — 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, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession."
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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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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of…
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, 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…
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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…
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could…
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by 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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I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this…
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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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For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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More Ambivalent Quotes
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You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.
— Unknown Author
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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
— Keith Ablow
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Real love isn't ever ambivalent,
— Tony Kushner
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up…
— Rene Konig
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Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt,…
— Eric Fischl
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Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do…
— Robert Pozen
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When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em!
— Unknown Author
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The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
— Ralph Regula
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The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped!…
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