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"If one takes the path of success, then one ends up either successful or unsuccessful, there is no third alternative."
Imre KertészMan, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tra — Imre Kertész
"Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate."
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész
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Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
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"Man is always a little at fault, that’s all."
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"I do what I have to do, although I don’t know why I have to."
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"I am still here, although I don’t know why; accidentally, I guess, as I was born; I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth."
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"I stayed alive therefore I am."
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"I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself."
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