"She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And th… - Primo Levi

"She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning.

Primo Levi

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Primo Levi

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.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Pen Names: Damiano Malabaila

All quotes from Primo Levi Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Primo Levi:

J. M. Coetzee Elias Canetti Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Ursula K. Le Guin H. G. Wells

Additional quotes by Primo Levi

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

Beware of analogies: for millenia they corrupted medicine, and it may be their fault that today's pedagogical systems are so numerous, and after three thousand years of argument we still don't know which is best.

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 a no.

"She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning. - Primo Levi

About Primo Levi

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Primo Levi