"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."

"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."

"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."

"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."

"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."

"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

"Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal."

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"Life begins on the other side of despair."

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."

"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."