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. - Imre Kertész

Everyone here makes a botch of his life. That's the local specialty, the genius loci. Anyone who doesn't botch up his life here simply has no talent.

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it , I suffer from it die of it.