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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.

"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.

"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.

"Such will be our life. Every day, according to the established rhythm, Ausrücken and Einrücken, go out and come in; work, sleep and eat; fall ill, get better or die."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 26). Kindle Edition.

"Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man."

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (p. 16). Kindle Edition.