Jean Améry Quotes

1912–1978 Austria

Jean Améry (31 October 1912 in Vienna – 17 October 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist. He was a survivor and memoirist of the Holocaust, whose most widely-read work is At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), often called At the Mind's Limits.

Austria
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Also known as: Jean Amery

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It would be totally senseless to try to describe here the pain that was inflicted on me.

At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)

If someone wanted to impart his physical pain, he would have to inflict it and thereby become a torturer himself.

At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)

If one speaks about torture, one must take care not to exaggerate.

At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)

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