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"We lifted the menaschka on to the bunk and divided it, we satisfied the daily ragings of hunger, and now we are oppressed by shame."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 144). Kindle Edition.

"Thus in various ways, even those days of vigil, which in the telling seem as if they ought to have passed every limit of human torment, went by not very differently from other days."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 120). Kindle Edition.

we finally get to finish a book we have to read for my ww2 class, and this one is actually my favorite that we’ve read so far

"Without hatred and without sneering, Alex wipes his hand on my shoulder, both the palm and the back of the hand, to clean it; he would be amazed, the poor brute Alex, if someone told him that today, on the basis of this action, I judge him and Pannwitz and the innumerable others like him, big and small, in Auschwitz and everywhere."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 102). Kindle Edition.

"They crowd my memory with their faceless presences, and if I could enclose all the evil of our time in one image, I would choose this image which is familiar to me: an emaciated man, with head dropped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 83). Kindle Edition.

"And today just as in the old fable, we all feel, and the Germans themselves feel, that a curse not transcendent and divine, but inherent and historical—hangs over the insolent building based on the confusion of languages and erected in defiance of heaven like a stone oath."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 65). Kindle Edition.

"While I meditate on this, I try to profit from the interval of wakefulness to shake off the painful remnants of the preceding sleep, so as not to compromise the quality of the next dream. I crouch in the dark, I look around and I listen."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 52). Kindle Edition.