Today is Memorial Day, not to forget, ever. Then for the first time we realized that our language lacks words to express quest'offesa, the demolition of a man. In a moment, with almost prophetic intuition, the reality was revealed to us: we arrived at the bottom. More than that already can not go: there is no more miserable human condition, and it is unthinkable. Nothing is ours: we have removed the clothes, the shoes, the hair, if you talk, not listen to us, and if we listen, we do not understand. We take away the name, and if we want to keep it, we find in ourselves the strength to do so, to make sure that behind the name, something more of us, of us as we were, remains . Primo Levi, from "If This Is a Man"
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