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

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

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

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.

Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.

Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.