QUOTES

We need sacrifice in order to lose ourselves and find our identity.
Miklós Mészöly
Being a mystic, I don't like it when mysteries are mystified.
Imre Kertész
He will be driving a car, a big car, preferably red, that he's sitting in. He'll look us over and call out: "Waiting for me, pussycat?" At this point we'd best look the spermatozoon right between the eyes, right down to the brain, and slowly, confidently assert: "No. For my menopause, actually."
Krisztina Tóth
Try as I might, I find it impossible to be absent-minded, thanks to an intelligence that is keenly aware of each and every step I take.  Ergo, I suffer greatly.
Ernő Szép
I don’t get to the opera as often as I’d like. I’m too busy crawling on my belly, wiping out my fellow men.
A letter by István Örkény to a friend from the Russian front in World War II
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If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a human scrap yard. There – a little of everything, here – not enough of anything.
Péter Zilahy
A writer's greatest fear is the dread that, lacking anything new to say, he will some day become witty.
Imre Kertész
Even in its most threadbare of moments, the fabric of the law still binds the world.
Krisztina Tóth
A story should be a spacious, airy hall that you could live in, just strolling around, looking at this or that.
Péter Lengyel
The natural need of childhood is freedom. And today’s children are virtually forced into a cage. The natural need of adulthood is life. And today’s adults are either hardly alive, or live to the detriment of themselves or others, on hidden paths. The natural need of old age is tranquillity. And today’s elderly want freedom and life even on the brink of the grave, for their earlier needs were left unsatisfied.
Sándor Weöres