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It requires great spirit, an exceptionally great spirit, to suffer the success of a close relative. -- Sandor Marai
Whoever refuses to accept a part wants the whole, wants everything. -- Sandor Marai
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 study of philosophy. -- Sandor Marai
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 later when we are reminiscing and taking stock. -- Sandor Marai
And like everyone whom the gods spoil without reason, I feel a kind of anxiety buried at the heart of my happiness. It's all too beautiful, too flawless, too complete. -- Sandor Marai
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. -- Sandor Marai
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 to our act. Everything turns on our intentions. -- Sandor Marai
I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all. -- Sandor Marai
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, and all you hear is the rain. -- Sandor Marai
Then I understood that a survivor has no right to bring a complaint. Whoever survives has won his case, he has no right and no cause to bring charges; he has emerged the stronger, the more cunning, the more obstinate, from the struggle. -- Sandor Marai
[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance. -- Sandor Marai
One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers. -- Sandor Marai
There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them. -- Sandor Marai
Because no one can live with just the bare necessities in the real world ... we need a little superfluity in our lives, something dazzling, something that sparkles, something lovely, however cheap or worthless. Few people can live without the dream of beauty. -- Sandor Marai
We were quite different, but we belonged together, we were more than the sum of our two selves, we were allies, we made our own community, and that is rare in life. -- Sandor Marai
Life becomes bearable only when one comes to terms with who one is, both in one's own eyes and in the eyes of the world. -- Sandor Marai
Youth always yearns for that terrifying, suspect, indifferent homeland known as the world. -- Sandor Marai
But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language. -- Sandor Marai
That is our fate... One day we lose the person we love. Anyone who is unable to sustain that loss fails as a human being and does not deserve our sympathy. -- Sandor Marai
Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories. -- Sandor Marai
Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do. -- Sandor Marai
Because it's not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Calm and extraordinarily, terrifyingly lonely. -- Sandor Marai
Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal. -- Sandor Marai
You can even make facts lie. -- Sandor Marai
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 to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life. -- Sandor Marai
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 any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly. -- Sandor Marai
The family is a vast project, so enormous and important, both for us personally and for the world at large, that it's worth putting up with all the incomprehensible cares of life, all that superfluous pain, for its sake. -- Sandor Marai
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent. -- Sandor Marai
Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one's priorities; one's sentimental and psychological values go out the window. -- Sandor Marai
We have done everything within the scope of modern medicine.' Those are just words. They apparently did everything within their erratic knowledge and the limits of their vanity. -- Sandor Marai
There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who is forced to look his killer in the eyes, as if he were the creature bowing before its creator. -- Sandor Marai
London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there. -- Sandor Marai
One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect -- Sandor Marai
There are times I almost believe that anything possible to be done should be done, not just because it's good or makes sense, simply because it's possible. -- Sandor Marai
Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understands, and with the utmost tact despises the person one is subjugating. -- Sandor Marai
There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect. -- Sandor Marai
I don't like such "great questions" - my view is that life consists of a million little questions and that it is always only the totality of those that really matters. -- Sandor Marai
Being human beings is not a responsibility we can avoid, but we can, and do, tell an awful lot of lies in trying to fulfill it. -- Sandor Marai
The deep secret at the core of art, in the artist himself, was the embodying of an instinct for play. -- Sandor Marai
The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more. -- Sandor Marai
After reaching ninety, one ages differently from the way one aged at fifty or sixty: one ages without bitterness. -- Sandor Marai
And I know Krisztina's days and nights, her body and her soul, as well as I know my own -- Sandor Marai
Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship? -- Sandor Marai