Primo Levi Quotes
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life.
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It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.
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We do what we like, and we like what we do.
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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.
