I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

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

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.