There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual.

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.