“Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?”

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”

“It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking”

“It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.”

“Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.”

“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty”