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Sandor Marai quotes: Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

Sandor Marai quotes: There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

Sandor Marai quotes: I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all.

I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all.

Sandor Marai quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Youth always yearns for that terrifying, suspect, indifferent homeland known as the world.

Youth always yearns for that terrifying, suspect, indifferent homeland known as the world.

Sandor Marai quotes: Whoever refuses to accept a part wants the whole, wants everything.

Whoever refuses to accept a part wants the whole, wants everything.

Sandor Marai quotes: London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

Sandor Marai quotes: After reaching ninety, one ages differently from the way one aged at fifty or sixty: one ages without bitterness.

After reaching ninety, one ages differently from the way one aged at fifty or sixty: one ages without bitterness.

Sandor Marai quotes: Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one's priorities; one's sentimental and psychological values go out the window.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: [U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.

[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.

Sandor Marai quotes: There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

Sandor Marai quotes: And I know Krisztina's days and nights, her body and her soul, as well as I know my own

And I know Krisztina's days and nights, her body and her soul, as well as I know my own

Sandor Marai quotes: The deep secret at the core of art, in the artist himself, was the embodying of an instinct for play.

The deep secret at the core of art, in the artist himself, was the embodying of an instinct for play.

Sandor Marai quotes: One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.

One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.

Sandor Marai quotes: 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.

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 quotes: But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language.

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 quotes: It requires great spirit, an exceptionally great spirit, to suffer the success of a close relative.

It requires great spirit, an exceptionally great spirit, to suffer the success of a close relative.

Sandor Marai quotes: The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.

The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.

Sandor Marai quotes: Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

Sandor Marai quotes: One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Sandor Marai quotes: Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

Sandor Marai quotes: Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

Sandor Marai quotes: You can even make facts lie.

You can even make facts lie.