Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.

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