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Over and over, when the wayside dust had grayed us,
And we came and knocked at another’s door,
He threatened us with his fist and gainsaid us:
This is not your place! Move on!
Over and over.
Over…
Contributor:
Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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Do you know who turns and returns?
Do you know the meaning of Atonement?
Do you know who watched for you by night,
Late, and in the early morning light?
Do you know who verges on Atonement?
Do you…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
Date:
1946
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Most Distinguished Sir,
The undersigned, your most humble servant, is a wretched woman of twenty-three years of age. I was married for five and a half years to this Mr. Lucio Luzzatto, [but] I was…
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Relle Luzzatto Morschene
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Trieste, Holy Roman Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1794
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We will compose a little book that will also serve as an amusement when, in ten years’ time, we want to look back into the past and observe what we lived through. All people have a weakness for…
Contributor:
Emanuele Levi
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Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia
(Asti, Italy)
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1822–1823
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All nations have been subject, in their authors, as in all other things, to significant important changes. Inclinations, needs, and the relations of their subjects change, as do the passions of the…
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Benedetto Frizzi
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Trieste, Habsburg Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1787–1790
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Lelio Della Torre
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Padua, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
(Padova, Italy)
Date:
1829
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Artist Unknown
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1728
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Abraham Farissol
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1515
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Rachel Olivetti of Pesaro
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino
(Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
1620