"My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die."

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Source : Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Primo Levi

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“When we adoptâ€”and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communitiesâ€”weâ€™re picturing something thatâ€™s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.”
“It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.”
“I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it.”
“May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.”
“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”
“Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.”
“When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”
“Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.”

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