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" "I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Primo Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian chemist and author of memoirs, short stories, poems and novels. He joined an anti-Fascist group at the start of the Second World War but was captured and taken to the German concentration camp at Auschwitz. Levi survived the Holocaust and returned to Italy.
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Todos descobrem, mais tarde ou mais cedo na vida, que a felicidade perfeita não é realizável, mas poucos se detêm a pensar na consideração oposta: que também uma infelicidade perfeita é, igualmente, não realizável. Os momentos que se opõem à realização de ambos os estados-limite são da mesma natureza: derivam da nossa condição humana, que é inimiga de tudo o que é infinito. Opõe-se-lhe a certeza da morte, que impõe um limite a qualquer alegria, mas também a qualquer dor. Opõem-se-lhe as inevitáveis preocupações materiais que, assim como poluem qualquer felicidade duradoura, também distraem assiduamente a nossa atenção da desgraça que paira sobre nós e tornam fragmentária e, por isso mesmo, suportável, a consciência dela.
All took leave from life in the manner which most suited them. Some praying, some deliberately drunk, others lustfully intoxicated for the last time. But the mothers stayed up to prepare the food for the journey with tender care, and washed their children and packed their luggage; and at dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundreds other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to die tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?