Primo Levi: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)

Primo Levi era scrittore, partigiano e chimico italiano. Frasi in inglese.
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“Sandro was surprised when I tried to explain to him some of the ideas that at the time I was confusedly cultivating. That the nobility of man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter, and that I had enrolled in chemistry because I wanted to remain faithful to this nobility. That 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 laboriously learning to unravel, was poetry, loftier and more solemn than all the poetry we had swallowed down in liceo; and come to think of it, it even rhymed!”

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Primo Levi libro Il sistema periodico

"Iron"
The Periodic Table (1975)

“If he believes time has run its course,
A man is a sad thing too.”

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Primo Levi libro Collected Poems

"January 17, 1946"
Collected Poems (1984)

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”

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Primo Levi libro Il sistema periodico

"Zinc"
The Periodic Table (1975)