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The Truce: A Survivor's Journey Home from Auschwitz

by Primo Levi

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Jul 25, 2026 11:42AM

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: fallibility, humor

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“You may like or dislike my way of life, that's a matter of the perfect indifference to me; you will have to treat me with respect if you want to know me”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Vol 5 of 8

tags: life, self-awareness, self-respect

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“one may sit for several hours at a stretch with one's legs crossed in the same position, if one knows that there's nothing to prevent one's changing one's position; but if a man knows that he must remain sitting so with crossed legs, then cramps come on, the legs begin to twitch and to strain towards the spot to which one would like to draw them”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: humor, mind-power, persistence

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“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

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“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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