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.
Imre KertészOf course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
Imre KertészI tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
Imre Kertész