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"You mustn't forget about your future, Enrique."
"I'm living for the present, Dad."
"Ah!" he waved that aside. "The present is just temporary."
' I boiled up. "I know," I burst out. 'It only has to be accepted temporarily — temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.
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I took a stroll in the city. It was infernally hot. The usual evening hubbub around me. Lovers on the pavements, hurrying to cinemas and other places of amusement as if nothing had happened, nothing. Living their nonexistent lives. Or do they exit, and it's me who doesn't.
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I had gotten into the habit of sleeping late because I had started to see that this was the only sensible way I could kill time.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Born:
November 9, 1929
Died:
March 31, 2016
(aged 86)
Bio:
Imre Kertész is a Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, 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".
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