If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer..

If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of angu….

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general i….

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence..

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking q….

If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfe….

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered s….

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, do….

To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced t….

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force our….

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end..

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is….

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of s….

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combi….

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnat….

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait..

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, lik….

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be take….

Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he posses….