If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live. - Primo Levi

... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once...

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to “free a little black boy.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good