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Primo Levi — Italian Scientist born on July 31, 1919, died on April 11, 1987

Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and his unique work, The Periodic Table, linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written... (wikipedia)

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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.
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.
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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... House (Anne Frankhuis): quote by Primo Levi on display in the museum
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Primo Levi - L'addio Ricorda ancora che io ti aspetto.
CAMON: Meaning that Auschwitz is proof of the nonexistence of God?
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... celui qui rêve: le réveil est la pire des souffrances. - Primo Levi
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... raccoglie 26 racconti, scritti da Primo Levi tra il 1977 e il 1987
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... Restless Anthropologist: Primo Levi’s “A Tranquil Star
... Bear Meat' by Primo Levi. Quote is also in the movie 'Into The Wild
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