If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

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