The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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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
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 retirement in the case of a trade or profession.
Primo Levi
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.
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Is he out of his senses Does he not see Beppo the Greek next to him Beppo whos 20 years old and is going to the gas chamber tomorrow, and knows it, and lies there staring up at the light, without saying anything, without even thinking anymore.
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Monsters exist, but they are few in number to be truly dangerous
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
Primo Levi
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