“It is
common knowledge that nobody is born with a decalogue already formed, but that
everyone builds his own either during his life or at the end, on the basis of
his own experiences, or of those of others which can be assimilated to his own;
so that everybody’s moral universe, suitably interpreted, comes to be
identified with the sum of his former experiences, and so represents an
abridged form of his biography.”
---from Primo Levi, The Reawakening (1965)
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