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"Heimweh" the Germans call this pain; it is a beautiful word, it means "longing for one's home".

If This Is A Man, Primo Levi

Take care not to suffer in your own homes what is inflicted on us here.

If This Is A Man, Primo Levi

And for the first time since I entered the camp the reveille catches me in a deep sleep and its ringing is a return from nothingness.

If This Is A Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

Precisely because the Lager was a great machine to reduce us to beasts, we must not become beasts.

If This Is A Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

Vous n'êtes pas à la maison.

If This Is A Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

"No," he says simply, "I am a criminal."

If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

He who loses all often easily loses himself.

If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

Nach dent Abort, vor dem Essen Hände waschen, nicht vergessen.

If This Is A Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

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

If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

So bist du rein, So gehst du ein

If This Is A Man, Primo Levi

(Like this you are clean, like this you come to a bad end)

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And night came, and it was such a night that one knew that human eyes would not witness it and survive.

If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

Man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly.

If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

#if this is a man #primo levi

You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud Who does not know peace Who fights for a scrap of bread Who dies because of a yes or a no. Consider if this is a woman, Without hair and without name With no more strength to remember, Her eyes empty and her womb cold Like a frog in winter. Meditate that this came about: I commend these words to you. Carve them in your hearts At home, in the street, Going to bed, rising; Repeat them to your children, Or may your house fall apart, May illness impede you, May your children turn their faces from you.

If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

#If This Is a Man #Primo Levi

If my nature is such that I cannot resist sin, I shall give myself over to sin. At least I shall not be a hypocrite, preaching the word of God with my mind thinking of the shoulders and neck of a woman who does not belong to me.

"The Strength of God," Sherwood Anderson

#Sherwood Anderson #The Strength of God

"She was dead in her turn, and lay beside him with smooth upstaring face. How quiet it was!--and yet she heard feet coming, the feet of the men who were to carry them away...She could feel it too--she felt a sudden prolonged vibration, a series of hard shocks, and then another plunge into darkness, the darkness of death this time--a black whirlwind on which they were both spinning like leaves, in wild uncoiling spirals, with millions and millions of the dead."

"A Journey," Edith Wharton

#A Journey #Edith Wharton

"for ye know sinnin' will always make a man leave prayin'."

"The Ghost in the Mill," Harriet Beecher Stowe

#The Ghost in the Mill #Harriet Beecher Stowe

"It looked like the first day of creation."

"A Journey," Edith Wharton

#A Journey #Edith Wharton

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