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Primo Levi Quotes

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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.  (Primo Levi Quotes) Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each  (Primo Levi Quotes) Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry  (Primo Levi Quotes) Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live  (Primo Levi Quotes) I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself  (Primo Levi Quotes) He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good  (Primo Levi Quotes) An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy  (Primo Levi Quotes) Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust  (Primo Levi Quotes) For he who loses all often easily loses himself  (Primo Levi Quotes) I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man  (Primo Levi Quotes) The living are more demanding; the dead can wait  (Primo Levi Quotes) I’m a libertine, but it’s not my specialty  (Primo Levi Quotes) It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is  (Primo Levi Quotes) The aims of life are the best defense against death  (Primo Levi Quotes) What to do now? How to detach yourself? With every work that’s born you die a little  (Primo Levi Quotes) Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation,.. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man  (Primo Levi Quotes) 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 in one’s becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained  (Primo Levi Quotes) If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer  (Primo Levi Quotes) My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die  (Primo Levi Quotes) It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end  (Primo Levi Quotes) A country is considered the more civilized the more wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful  (Primo Levi Quotes) The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong  (Primo Levi Quotes) Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea  (Primo Levi Quotes) Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction  (Primo Levi Quotes) We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century  (Primo Levi Quotes) Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features  (Primo Levi Quotes) I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine  (Primo Levi Quotes) The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign  (Primo Levi Quotes) 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 a powerful one too powerful  (Primo Levi Quotes) 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 has not, will be taken away  (Primo Levi Quotes)
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