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“Sớm hay muộn trong cuộc đời mình mỗi người sẽ khám phá ra rằng hạnh phúc hoàn hảo là không có thật, nhưng ít ai chịu ngẫm nghĩ về điều ngược lại: rằng một sự bất hạnh hoàn hảo cũng không hề có. Những vật cản để tiến tới hai thái cực này đều cùng một dạng: đều là vì đặc trưng của con người vốn luôn phản kháng lại những điều tuyệt đối, vô hạn. Những đặc trưng ấy bắt nguồn từ hiểu biết chẳng bao giờ đủ của chúng ta về tương lai mà ta vẫn gọi khi thì hi vọng, khi thì là sự bất trắc về ngày mai; là cái chết rồi sẽ đến của mỗi đời người, chết là chấm hết mọi niềm sung sướng cũng như mọi nỗi khổ đau; là những nỗi lo vật chất không tránh khỏi, có thể làm vẩn đục bất cứ hạnh phúc lâu dài nào cũng như có thể làm lãng đi những nỗi thống khổ, làm gián đoạn ý thức con người về nỗi bất hạnh của mình và khiến nó trở nên chịu đựng được.”

Quote by Primo Levi

Book:Survival In Auschwitz

Work

Survival In Auschwitz

This book offers a first-hand perspective on the extreme conditions and hardships faced by inmates in the Auschwitz concentration camp, providing a profound and disturbing insight into the human capacity for endurance and resilience amidst unimaginable suffering. more

Author

Primo Levi

Chemist and Italian Jewish author, known for his dual identity as a survivor of Nazi concentration camps and a chemist. His works profoundly reflect the moral dilemmas and psychological states of humans in extreme environments. more

“Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker. If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. And that’s who forms our poetics.”

Poetry Latino

Author:Juan Felipe Herrera

“Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out Neither side is glorious On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing Not to lie under the earth but to walk upon it without crutches (Roux, act 1, scene 19)”

War Theatre

Book:The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Source: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

“war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”

War

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a Huey, go take the glamour out of a Sheridan...Can _you_ take the glamour out of a Cobra, or getting stoned at China Beach? It's like taking the glamour out of an M-79, taking the glamour out of Flynn." He pointed to a picture he'd taken, Flynn laughing maniacally ("We're winning," he'd said), triumphantly. "Nothing the matter with _that_ boy, is there? Would you let your daughter marry that man? Ohhhh, war is _good_ for you, you can't take the glamour out of that. It's like trying to take the glamour out of sex, trying to take the glamour out of the Rolling Stones." He was really speechless, working his hands up and down to emphasize the sheer insanity of it. "I mean, you _know_ that it just _can't be done!_" We both shrugged and laughed, and Page looked very thoughtful for a moment. "The very _idea!_" he said. "Ohhh, what a laugh! Take the bloody _glamour_ out of bloody _war!”

War Glamour

Book:Dispatches

Source: Dispatches

“A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what he called himself, and no great effort was made to disentangle Christian names from surnames from nicknames.”

War

Book:Going After Cacciato

Source: Going After Cacciato

“Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.”