One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one. Imre Kertész More Quotes by Imre Kertész More Quotes From Imre Kertész 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 Kertész deception country lying I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions. Imre Kertész raw-materials looks way I refuse to adapt or integrate myself. Imre Kertész integrating refuse ...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp. Imre Kertész concentration littles beautiful Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. Imre Kertész killing long way Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what? Imre Kertész enough talking Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot. Imre Kertész streets feet yesterday There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution. Imre Kertész just-one revolution police I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act! Imre Kertész our-world sick order I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. Imre Kertész writing book people