My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.