“There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.”

“It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or submit to, some outrage: the shame that the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should have proved too weak or null, and should not have availed in defense.”

“I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.”

“Some people should never meet.”

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

“Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.”