"Dying is easy
life is one enormous concentration camp
that God has established here on Earth for mankind
and that man has refined yet further
as an annihilation camp for his own kith
Taking one's own life amounts to
outwitting those who stand on guard
escapting deserting those who are left behind
laughing up one's sleeve
In this big Lager of life
the neither-in-nor-out neither-forward-nor-back
in this wretched world of lives held
in suspended animation where we grow decrepit
without time moving away any further forward
this is where I learn that to rebel is
TO STAY ALIVE
The great insubordination is
for us to live our lives to the end
(...) i dont know how i should continue."
-- Liquidation, Imre Kertész
melancholy is the cold i get from this book.
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