Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that… — 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
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — 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
