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 then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A… — 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
