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everyone knew that for each man saved another victim had to be found.
To attempt a methodical presentation of the subject is very difficult, as psychology requires a certain scientific detachment. But does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment?
once lost, the will to live seldom returned.
At that moment I saw the plain truth and did what marked the culminating point of the first phase of my psychological reaction: I struck out my whole former life.
we really had nothing now except our bare bodies—even minus hair; all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.
most of us were overcome by a grim sense of humor. We knew that we had nothing to lose except our so ridiculously naked lives.
If someone now asked of us the truth of Dostoevski’s statement that flatly defines man as a being who can get used to anything, we would reply, “Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.”
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
