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Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.

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

I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

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

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all.

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

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.