"You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique." "I’m livin… - Imre Kertész

"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.

Imre Kertész

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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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