For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has given us, but when we meet we both have a… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis:… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given;… — 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
