“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… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.” — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“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… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us. By the… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp. — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.” — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot. — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.” — imre kertesz Copy Share Image
“Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.” — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On the other… — Imre Kertesz Copy Share Image
