“The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.”
“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”
“For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold...”
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.”