There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them. — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect — Sándor Márai Betrayal Copy Share Image
London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there. — Sándor Márai Boredom Copy Share Image
“Ta chwila w życiu emigranta, kiedy staje się imigrantem - już nie to ważne, co opuścił, lecz to, do czego przybył.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.” — Sándor Márai Death Copy Share Image
“One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.” — Sándor Márai Reality Copy Share Image
“... I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all.” — Sándor Márai Blessing Copy Share Image
“The deep secret at the core of art, in the artist himself, was the embodying of an instinct for play.” — Sándor Márai Art Copy Share Image
“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the… — Sándor Márai Book 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 Life Copy Share Image
“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with… — Sándor Márai Cold war Copy Share Image
“Pokoj a předměty v něm si lze prohlížet dvěma různymi způsoby: jako kdyby člověk něco objevoval a jako kdyby se s něčím… — Sándor Márai Goodbye 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 Family Copy Share Image
“But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of… — Sándor Márai Kiss Copy Share Image
“Then I understood that a survivor has no right to bring a complaint. Whoever survives has won his case, he has no… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“Bál se hudby, protože s ní potají souvisel, souviselo s ní nejen jeho vědomí, nýbrž i tělo: jako by hlubší smysl hudby… — Sándor Márai Music Copy Share Image
“There is this question of otherness….So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face… — Sándor Márai Faith Copy Share Image
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart,… — Sandor Marai Dark 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
“Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can… — Sándor Márai Contempt Copy Share Image
“Superati i novanta, si invecchia in maniera diversa rispetto a quanto avviene dopo i cinquanta o i sessanta. Si invecchia senza risentimento.… — Sándor Márai Amor 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 Baldness Copy Share Image
“Mou vlastí bylo Polsko a Vídeň, tento dům a kasárny ve měste, Halič a Chopin. Co z toho všeho zůstalo? To, co… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“To nie komputer jest winien, ze przeważająca większość ludzi dziś jest w dalszym ciagu głupia, tylko sam człowiek, który w każdej cywilizacji,… — 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 Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Nemuseli "uzavírat přátelství" jako jejich vrstevníci při směšných a slavnostních obradech, s důležitou vášnivostí, jako když se mezi lidmi ohlásí vášeň, nevědomky… — Sándor Márai Friendship Copy Share Image
“Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It… — Sándor Márai Friendship Copy Share Image
“Goethe (I don’t know why, but Goethe somehow always speaks up in my critical moments) said: “Man must experience his own destiny”… — Sándor Márai Atom bomb Copy Share Image
“Byla neurčitelná a nezařaditelná, jako by ji úplne nepojímala žádná národnost a třída, jako by se příroda jednou pokusila vytvořit samostatnou nezávislou… — Sándor Márai Dignity Copy Share Image
Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork… — Sándor Márai Beautiful Copy Share Image
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“You see what I mean? Being rich must be a condition, much like sickness or health. Say you are rich, you might,… — Sándor Márai Drinking champagne Copy Share Image
“Inteligent to typ człowieka, który łatwiej zniesie prześladowanie niż przeoczenie.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories. — Sándor Márai Anger Copy Share Image
“And I know Krisztina's days and nights, her body and her soul, as well as I know my own” — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“It requires great spirit, an exceptionally great spirit, to suffer the success of a close relative.” — Sándor Márai Great spirit Copy Share Image
