Man must be invented each day

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

I am myself and I am here.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

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