“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”
Liquidation (2003)
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Hungarian writer 1929–2016Related quotes

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Source: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)