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Good can be done in a life in which Evil is the life principle, but only at the cost of the doer’s sacrificing his life.

— Imre Kertész

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Good can be done in a life in which Evil is the life principle, but only at the cost of the doer’s sacrificing his life." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Imre Kertész

About Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész (9 November 1929 - 31 March 2016) is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.