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If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.
— Primo Levi
How important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once ...
— Primo Levi
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.
— Primo Levi
Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed.
— Primo Levi
Does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)
— Primo Levi
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 know it and feel safe.
— Primo Levi
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
— Primo Levi
The latrine is an oasis of peace.
— Primo Levi
How can one hit a man without anger?
— Primo Levi
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
Fear is supremely contagious, and its immediate reaction is to make one try to run away.
— Primo Levi
We become aware, with amazement, that we have forgotten nothing, every memory evoked rises in front of us painfully clear.
— Primo Levi
I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
— Primo Levi
For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
— Primo Levi
... in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose.
— Primo Levi
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
— Primo Levi
(this is a story interwoven with freezing dawns.)
— Primo Levi
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
— Primo Levi
Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.
— Primo Levi
Why does it happen? Why is the pain of every day translated so constantly into our dreams, in the ever-repeated scene of the unlistened-to story?
— Primo Levi
Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.
— Primo Levi
He never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward.
— Primo Levi
She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning.
— Primo Levi
Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion
— Primo Levi
Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
— Primo Levi
Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time.
— Azar Nafisi
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
— Primo Levi
He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He "knows" whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.
— Primo Levi
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end
— Primo Levi
What do you take me for? Do you think I was born yesterday? Do you think I have never dealt in eggs?
— Primo Levi
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.
— Primo Levi
I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.
— Primo Levi
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
— Primo Levi
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [ ... ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.
— Primo Levi
The truck went on its way in the night and Gedaleh shouted, laughing, If not this way, how? And if not now, when?
— Primo Levi
One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist.
— Michael Barnett
The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing.
— Primo Levi