More quotes by Imre Kertész
Talking is not enough; words don’t clarify anything. I’ll have to hit upon something, but what?
If people had understood the greatness of those works, they would have destroyed them long ago.
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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