I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

Man's existence precedes his essence

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

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

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

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

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.