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Excerpt from Art and Revolt, by Albert Camus, art by José María Sicilia

“ If to understand is impossible, to know is necessary and to remember is a duty” -Primo Levi

On 27 January 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops. In five years of activity at least 1.1 million prisoners died there (90 percent of them Jewis), many of those non killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, medical experiments and individual executions.

This photo was taken in the Jewish Museum Berlin, it’s the “Fallen Leaves Installation”: 10.000 faces punched out of steel distribuited on the ground of the Memory Void. Visitors are invited to walk on the faces and listen to the sounds created by the metal sheets, as they clang and rattle against one another.

“Consider whether this is a man, Who labours in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a crust of bread Who dies at a yes or no.” - Primo Levi

onlywordssometimesfeelings

the music was good it was safe but on a night like tonight, it was lonely, too.

#music #blackout poetry

nl93

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” - Anna Quindlen

annabethisterrified

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (via annabethisterrified)

#pride and prejudice #jane austen

julieterbang

ilmareditroppo

«Voi che vivete sicuri nelle vostre tiepide case, voi che trovate tornando a sera il cibo caldo e visi amici: Considerate se questo è un uomo che lavora nel fango che non conosce pace che lotta per mezzo pane che muore per un si o per un no. Considerate se questa è una donna, senza capelli e senza nome senza più forza di ricordare vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo come una rana d’inverno. Meditate che questo è stato: vi comando queste parole. Scolpitele nel vostro cuore stando in casa andando per via, coricandovi, alzandovi. Ripetetele ai vostri figli. O vi si sfaccia la casa, la malattia vi impedisca, i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.»

- Primo Levi

whatever-you-write

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance .— Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

calliestephanides

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.