Quote by Primo Levi

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.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more bea

Summary

This quote suggests that the speaker is content with their own life and identity, comparing it to living inside their own house and skin. Although they acknowledge the existence of other people who may have more attractive or impressive lives, they feel it would be unnatural or undesirable to trade their own experience for someone else's. The quote highlights the value of self-acceptance and the idea that one should appreciate their own circumstances rather than coveting what others have.

Topics

Home

By Primo Levi

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a b

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Independence

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a d

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

Dad

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him.

Religion

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

Christina Aguilera

Mom

When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respe

When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart.

Love Admiration Romance Adoration

I never said most of the things I said.

I never said most of the things I said.

Funny

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations wit

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred de Vigny

Money

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Friedrich Schiller

Beauty

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifeti

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

Service

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Artist

Ben Says: Empower

Ben Says: Empower

Inspirational Bullying Ben