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"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 extremes states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and in the other, uncertainty of the following day. The certainty of death opposes it: for it places a limit on every joy, but also on every grief. The inevitable material cares oppose it: for as they poison every lasting happiness, they equally assiduously distract us from out misfortunes and make our consciousness of them intermittent and hence supportable."
-If this is a man, Primo Levi
My boss gifted me with another Primo Levi title, as a farewell and early birthday present. Twenty-three pages into the book and I already like this as much as his 'The Drowned and The Saved'.
-If this is a man, Primo Levi
My boss gifted me with another Primo Levi title, as a farewell and early birthday present. Twenty-three pages into the book and I already like this as much as his 'The Drowned and The Saved'.