Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

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

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

Man is condemned to be free

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.