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

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

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

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

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