“... I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent. — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“I don't like such "great questions" - my view is that life consists of a million little questions and that it is… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“The family is a vast project, so enormous and important, both for us personally and for the world at large, that it's… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them. — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“Tomorrow, everyone who is beautiful will come under suspicion. As will those with talent and those with character.” His voice was hoarse. “Don’t you… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“There is this question of otherness….So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face of danger,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“To nie komputer jest winien, ze przeważająca większość ludzi dziś jest w dalszym ciagu głupia, tylko sam człowiek, który w każdej cywilizacji, a więc… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
“Byla neurčitelná a nezařaditelná, jako by ji úplne nepojímala žádná národnost a třída, jako by se příroda jednou pokusila vytvořit samostatnou nezávislou a svobodnou… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn… — Sándor Márai Copy Share
