Sándor Márai Quotes

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• Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the…
• She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would…
• Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?
• And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise…
• 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 amount…
• I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem…
• Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.
• You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless,…
• Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening…
• We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us…
• It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it…
• Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.
• 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…

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