- Klaus Koch: [Koch took Gilles back after he was put to move to another camp] You would risk your life for those nameless people.
- Gilles: Those aren't nameless. Just because you don't know their names. At least they aren't murderers.
- Klaus Koch: I'm not a murderer.
- Gilles: No. You just make sure that the murderers eat well.
- Klaus Koch: As long as you work for me nothing will happen to you. I bet 20 cans of meat that nothing will happen to you.
- Gilles: Too bad I won't be able to eat them since I'll be dead.
- Gilles: [about his daily fourty words in 'Farsi'] Inventing them is not a problem but to remember them all, it's impossible. And there will always be more. Many more.
- [last lines]
- American Investigator: Do you remember some of the names?
- Gilles: Yes. I remember. I can give you 2840 names.
- American Investigator: Of people?
- Gilles: Yes. The first and last names of 2840 people.
- American Investigator: But that's impossible!
- [Then he lists their names]
- Klaus Koch: You must have made a mistake, Herr Obersturmfuhrer.
- SS-Obersturmführer Eugen Krupp: To err is human.
- Klaus Koch: Why are you so angry with me? I didn't kill your countryman.
- Gilles: I'm just tired.
- Klaus Koch: Tired? Of what?
- Gilles: Of being afraid.