Cognitively we don’t know and will never discover what occasions the cause of our existence, we don’t know the purpose of our existence and we don’t … - Imre Kertész

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Cognitively we don’t know and will never discover what occasions the cause of our existence, we don’t know the purpose of our existence and we don’t know why we have to disappear from here once we have been placed here, I don’t know, why I have to live this fragmentary existence, which happened to be my lot, instead of a life that perhaps does exist somewhere. Why did I get this lot? This sex, this body, this awareness, this geographic setting, this fate, this language, this history, this rented room?

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About Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész (9 November 1929 - 31 March 2016) is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.

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Native Name: Kertész Imre
Alternative Names: Imre Kertesz Kertész, Imre Kertesz, Imre I. Kertész I. Kertesz Imre Kertes Kertes, Imre I. Kertes Imne K'erŭt'esŭ K'erŭt'esŭ, Imne Imra Kirtīs Imrje Kjertijes Imure Kerutēsu I. K.
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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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