A person’s true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all. - Imre Kertész

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

That evening he talked about Leonardo and Michelangelo. It is impossible to place them in the human world, he said. It is impossible to comprehend how anything that attests to greatness has survived; it is obviously a result of innumerable chance events and of human incomprehension, he said. If people had understood the greatness of those works, they would have destroyed them long ago. Fortunately, people have lost their flair for greatness and only their flair for murder has persisted, though undoubtedly they have refined the latter, their flair for murder, to an art, almost to point of greatness, he said.

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.