"But there are times when being happy — just happy, nothing else — is simply vile."
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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