“Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.”

“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”

“It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.”

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.”

“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

“It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege.”