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From The Complete Works of Primo Levi, Volume Two, Uncollected Stories and Essays: 1949 - 1980, edited by Ann Goldstein, translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco Bastagli

IT IS NOT

"It is not necessarily true that once you feel affection for a book or a person you no longer see its defects."

From Foreword to The Night of the Girondists, by Jacques Presser

Daily Dose

From The Complete Works of Primo Levi, Volume Two, Uncollected Stories and Essays: 1949 - 1980, edited by Ann Goldstein, translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco Bastagli

OURS

"Ours is a strange time, with an abundance of people who will explain everything to you; it's the age of explainers, of people who will clarify everything, get to the bottom of everything, its causes and its consequences.  And no doubt this is a praiseworthy endeavor.  Bu to believe that one has truly explained everything, in the original sense of the word -- that is, made clear the necessary trigger of historical events, the causes that necessarily lead to a result, the nexus between cause and effect that is the foundation of science -- is a bit easy."

From Racial Intolerance