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… — 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
