To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
An individual chooses and makes himself.