Sándor Márai Quotes

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.

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

A házasság számára nem volt „tökéletes” vagy „tökéletlen” intézmény, a házasság volt az erkölcsi forma, amely isteni keretet adott a különnemű emberek együttélésének, a családnak.

Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures were built. It reaches beyond personal desires and self-regard in men's hearts, its grip is greater than that of sexual desire, and it is proof against disappointment because it asks for nothing.

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.