“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.”

—  Primo Levi

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Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, e… 1918–1987

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