<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523714" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Survivor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am twenty-four<br>led to slaughter<br>I survived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The following are empty synonyms:<br>man and beast<br>love and hate<br>friend and foe<br>darkness and light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The way of killing men and beasts is the same<br>I've seen it:<br>truckfuls of chopped-up men<br>who will not be saved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ideas are mere words:<br>virtue and crime<br>truth and lies<br>beauty and ugliness<br>courage and cowardice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Virtue and crime weigh the same<br>I've seen it:<br>in a man who was both<br>criminal and virtuous.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I seek a teacher and a master<br>may he restore my sight hearing and speech<br>may he again name objects and ideas<br>may he separate darkness from light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am twenty-four<br>led to slaughter<br>I survived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by Adam Czerniawski</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tadeusz+R%26ograve%3Bzewicz">Tadeusz R&ograve;zewicz</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523714" data-title="The Survivor de Tadeusz R&ograve;zewicz" data-description="I am twenty-four led to slaughter I survived. The following are empty synonyms: man and beast love and hate friend and foe darkness and light. The way of killing men and beasts is the same I've seen it: truckfuls of chopped-up men who will not b..."></div> </div> </div>

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