“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
“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of… — Sándor Márai Life Copy Share Image
“(...) só consegues tirar alguma coisa dos livros, se fores capaz de pôr algo teu no que estás a ler.” — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“The whole business of the bourgeois and the class war was different from what we proles were told. These people were sure… — Sándor Márai Business 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 Life 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 Beam 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
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent. — Sándor Márai Divorce 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
“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
“[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.” — Sándor Márai Nature of man 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
“Want het leven is niet te verdragen, tenzij in de wetenschap dat we berusten in alles wat we voor onszelf en de… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there. — Sándor Márai Boredom Copy Share Image
“Being human beings is not a responsibility we can avoid, but we can, and do, tell an awful lot of lies in… — Sándor Márai Responsibility 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
“The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.” — Sándor Márai 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
“Vášeň neargumentuje slovy rozumu. Vášní je naprosto lhostejné, co od druhého dostane, chce se vyjádřit úplně, chce úplně odevzdat svou vůli, a… — Sándor Márai Hatred 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 Age 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
“Mou vlastí bylo Polsko a Vídeň, tento dům a kasárny ve měste, Halič a Chopin. Co z toho všeho zůstalo? To, co… — Sándor Márai Homeland 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
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything… — Sándor Márai Genuine Copy Share Image
