Agota Kristof Quotes

#1. I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.

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#2. On our way home we throw the apples, the biscuits, the chocolate and the coins in the tall grass by the roadside. It is impossible to throw away the stroking on our hair

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#3. And death hasn't come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I've been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention

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#4. Don't be sentimental. Everything dies

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#5. You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.

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#6. My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained

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#7. As soon as you begin to think, you can no longer love life

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#8. People are cruel. They like to kill. It's the war that has taught them that. And there are explosives lying around everywhere

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#9. It is easier to give than to receive, is that it? Pride is a sin, Father

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#10. Death will obliterate everything soon

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#11. Crying is no use, you know. We never cry, even though we aren't men yet, like you

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#12. It's hardly matters whether it's true or false. The point is the slander. People love scandal

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#13. The people have already atoned
For the past and the future

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#14. Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

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