I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.