Quotes by Imre Kertész - Page 1

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.
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Integrating
Refuse
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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Autobiography
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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Fate
Such A Thing
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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
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Editing
Turns
Texts
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One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.
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...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.
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Beautiful
Concentration
Littles
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I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
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Changed
Holocaust
Opinion
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There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.
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Just One
Police
Revolution
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Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?
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Enough
Talking
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Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
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Killing
Long
Way
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I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!
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Order
Our World
Sick
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I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.
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Looks
Raw Materials
Way
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I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
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Book
People
Writing
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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Example
Modern Life
Organised
Extreme
Benefit
Camp
Expense
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Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.
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Feet
Streets
Yesterday
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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Censorship
Niche
Spectacular
Toughest
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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Harsh
Dictatorships
Lucid
Recognised
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Adventure
Auschwitz
Human Condition
Traveler
Condition
Cultural
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A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
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Add
Autobiography
Contrast
Depend
Document
Precisely
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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Awakening
Existential
Painter
Life Moment My Life
Dimension
Regardless
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Auschwitz
Excuse
Literature
Novel
Suspended
Begins
Cheap
Serial
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It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?
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Compliment
Holocaust
Qualifications
Shelves
Accept
Assigned
Complaint
Intend
Libraries
Subject
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You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.
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Country
Deception
Lying
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Aspect
Plot
Sovereign
Life Art Work
Author
Detail
Life Work Art
Follows
Reflected
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Auschwitz
Awakening
Filled
Introspection
Shame
Experience Me Anything
Experience Me Know
Except
Literary
Fresh
Occasion
Professional
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Accidents
Disconnected
Historical
Humans
Series
Wonder
Life May Reality
Exists
Eyes
Independently
Merely
Objective
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I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
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Blocked
Historian
Hungary
Empire
Organic
Political System
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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Introduction
Journal
Suppose
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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Academy
Auschwitz
Compensation
Delay
Foundation
Holocaust
Interviews
Perspective
Prominent
Silent
Speech
Suffering
Survivor
Swedish
Accepts
Assigned
Payments
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