“Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.” — 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 saying that she, being a Jew, had no right to talk about the French Revolution in that way, because had there been no French Revolution the Jews would still be living in ghettos today. After this… — Imre Kertész Copy Share
“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us. By the time we learn everything, we slowly come to understand it. And while you come to understand everything gradually, you don't remain idle at any moment: you are already attending to your new business; you live, you… — Imre Kertész Copy Share
...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
