"Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live"
-The Periodic Table
"Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite."
-Survival in Auschwitz
"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around is, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith is an idea"
-If This Is a Man/ The Truce
"If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction"
-The Periodic Table
"“You who live safe, In your warm houses, you who find warm food, and friendly faces when you return home. Consider if this is a man, who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for a crust of bread, who dies by a yes or no. Consider if this is a woman, without hair, without name, without the strength to remember, empty are her eyes, cold her womb, like a frog in winter. Never forget that this has happened. Remember these words. Engrave them in your hearts, when at home or in the street, when lying down, when getting up. Repeat them to your children. Or may your houses be destroyed, may illness strike you down, may your offspring turn their faces from you.”
-Survival in Auschwitz
“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”
-If This Is a Man/ The Truce
-The Periodic Table
"Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite."
-Survival in Auschwitz
"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around is, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith is an idea"
-If This Is a Man/ The Truce
"If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction"
-The Periodic Table
"“You who live safe, In your warm houses, you who find warm food, and friendly faces when you return home. Consider if this is a man, who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for a crust of bread, who dies by a yes or no. Consider if this is a woman, without hair, without name, without the strength to remember, empty are her eyes, cold her womb, like a frog in winter. Never forget that this has happened. Remember these words. Engrave them in your hearts, when at home or in the street, when lying down, when getting up. Repeat them to your children. Or may your houses be destroyed, may illness strike you down, may your offspring turn their faces from you.”
-Survival in Auschwitz
“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”
-If This Is a Man/ The Truce
Created by Asmita Ghosh