“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.” — Sándor Márai 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” - not a factual destiny forced on him by History, but the nonrecurrent, his very own. Perhaps this… — 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 Image
There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them. — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.” — Sándor Márai 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 which the… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.” — Sándor Márai 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 was the… — Sándor Márai 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, because no… — 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, a więc… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
