Imre Kertész - Order Quotes

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The state is always the same. The only reason it financed literature up till now was in order to liquidate it. Giving state support to literature is the state's sneaky way for the state liquidation of literature.

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If a person resolves to fight, he ought to know what he is fighting for. Otherwise it makes no sense. A person usually fights against a power in order to gain power himself. Or else because the power in question is threatening his life.

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I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

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I live and occasionally I look up at the glorious air or the clouds into which I keep digging my grave with my pen, diligently, like a forced laborer, whom they order every day to dig deeper with his spade…

Imre Kertész

Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on.

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