“I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.”
Primo Levi book If This Is a Man
If This Is a Man (1947)
“I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!”
— Christopher Isherwood, book A Single Man
Source: A Single Man
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