If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.

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

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself