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 orde… - Imre Kertész

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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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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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"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.

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