There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.