"Fatelessness" Quotes
A young Hungarian boy survives the Holocaust and struggles to make sense of his experiences.
fiction | 280 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
I was free, I was free, I was free.
In the end, one experiences only oneself.
The essence of the camp, and of the concept of fatelessness, is that one is completely separated from the rest of society.
You see, when you are born, you are free.
It's not that there's no way out, but there's no way in.
The feeling of being completely at the mercy of fate.
In a certain sense, everything that is in the future is already past.
What I had once considered the most basic human need, namely freedom, now seemed to me to be utterly unimportant.
We had given up, even before we had begun.
I was incapable of placing trust in the future.
