Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.

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

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.