On the other hand, what is really irrational and what truly… - Imre Kertész

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On the other hand, what is really irrational and what truly cannot be explained is not evil but, contrarily, the good.

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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I am still here, although I don’t know why; accidentally, I guess, as I was born; I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth.

At any rate I found myself writing because I had to write, although I didn’t know why.

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.

On the other hand, what is really irrational and what truly cannot be explained is not evil but, contrarily, the good. - Imre Kertész

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