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> [...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/i-would-like-to-live-a-little-bit-longer-in-this-beautiful/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

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> [“Despite all deliberation, sense, insight, and sober reason, I could not fail to recognize within myself the furtive and yet—ashamed as it might be, so to say, of its irrationality—increasingly insistent voice of some muffled craving of sorts: I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/despite-all-deliberation-sense-insight-and-sober-reason-i-could-not/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

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## Other authors on Concentration camp

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-viktor-e-frankl-93688.jpg) Viktor E. Frankl 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/concentration-camp/viktor-e-frankl/)

## More by Imre Kertész

> [I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/i-tried-to-depict-the-human-face-of-this-history-i-wanted-to-write-a/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/man-when-reduced-to-nothing-or-in-other-words-a-survivor-is-not/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“On one occasion she had spoken heatedly about the French Revolution, saying it had been little better than the Nazis. Her great-aunt responded by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/on-one-occasion-she-had-spoken-heatedly-about-the-french-revolution/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us. By the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/as-we-pass-one-step-and-as-we-recognize-it-as-being-behind-us-the/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/i-would-like-to-live-a-little-bit-longer-in-this-beautiful/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/i-can-see-the-young-man-on-dizzily-autumn-mornings-the-fog-of-which/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/nonexistence-the-society-of-the-nonexistent-in-the-street-yesterday-a/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/the-west-in-general-should-stand-up-more-for-its-own-values-it-is-not/)

[imre kertesz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/one-cannot-start-a-new-life-you-can-only-continue-the-old-one/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/voc-sobrevive-a-sua-falta-de-sensibilidade-e-compreende-que-o-vazio/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/of-course-living-is-another-way-of-killing-oneself-its-drawback-is/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/man-when-reduced-to-nothing-or-in-other-words-a-survivor-is-not-2/)

[Imre Kertesz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/i-read-somewhere-while-god-still-existed-one-sustained-a-dialogue/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [“Kingbitter, as he did frequently nowadays, was standing at his window and looking out onto the street below. This street offered the most mundane…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/kingbitter-as-he-did-frequently-nowadays-was-standing-at-his-window/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

> [You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/you-just-sit-there-and-tolerate-it-the-same-way-everything-in-this/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

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