Quote by: Primo Levi

For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser behind the greater, according to a definite law of perspective. It is providential and is our means of surviving in the camp. And this is the reason why so often in free life one hears it said that man is never content.


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Author Bio


  • NamePrimo Levi
  • DescriptionItalian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, essayist
  • BornJuly 31, 1919
  • DiedApril 11, 1987
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionChemist; Poet; Politician; Writer; Novelist
  • WorksIf This Is A Man
  • AwardsStrega Prize