If This Is A Man/The Truce: 'Miraculous' Philippe Sands (Hachette Essentials)

by Primo Levi

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.

nothing continues to happen.

No one has time here, no one has patience, no one listens to you;

In this discreet and composed manner, without display or anger, massacre moves through the huts of Ka-Be every day, touching here and there.