"You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique." "I’m living for the present, Dad." "Ah!" he waved that… — Imre Kertész
"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.
p. 66Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
"But there are times when being happy — just happy, nothing else — is simply vile."
"Why?" Jill inquired.
"Because," Enrique reasoned, "one cant be happy in a place where everybody is unhappy."
p. 55
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.
p. 69
Talking is not enough; words don’t clarify anything. I’ll have to hit upon something, but what?
p. 49
