The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.