"They sensed that what had happened around them……" — Primo Levi
"They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species - we, in short - had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act."
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58 Quotes by Primo Levi
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For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
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