If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Everybody is somebody's Jew. And today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Válka, to je hlavně velký zmatek, na poli i v lidských hlavách: často člověk ani nechápe, kdo vlastně vítězí a kdo prohrává, o tom… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppression. Here, too, the borderline between… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“We were also born," Line said abruptly. Mendel questioned her with a look, and Line tried to clarify her thought: "Born, expelled. Russia conceived… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few individuals in… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
