Antonio Iturbe. Keeper of the books from Auschwitz (№ 421942)

The first commandment that a newcomer from an old-timer hears in the camp is that each prisoner must clearly realize his goal: to survive. You will live a few more hours, and they will add up to another day, and this day, having joined the already lived, will become another week. And so slowly: not to make long-term plans, never to invent great goals, to see only one, the most modest - to live every next second, to live it, to survive. To live is a verb that has forms exclusively of the present tense.