“كأن أحدهم بعث بإشارة سرية تخبرهم أن الحياة ببساطة ليست قواعد ومحظورات وقيود، بل مشاعر أقل عقلانية وأقل رشداً وأكثر حرية مما ظلوا يعتقدونه حتى هذه اللحظة”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“لا شئ أخطر من رجل لا يخضع للطاغية”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“لحظة واحدة مكتملة قد تحوي أكثر إلي ما لا نهاية مما سبقها من سنوات وعقود غير مكتملة”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“على المرء أن يتقبل الأحداث ويدعها تأخذ مسارها فحسب”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“إن كل شئ يذهب، ما نفعله، وما نرغب فيه، وما نحبه، وما نقوله، النساء والعلاقات ، يتراكم تراب الزمن علي كل ما فعلناه، كل ما أثارنا ذات مرة .. لكن الكلمات وحدها تبقي”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“لم أكتفِ بعد من الضحك علي الحماقة البشرية”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“أن تعيش يعني أحياناً أن تنتظر”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“يريد الناس الحب مجاناً، وبدون التزامات إن أمكن”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“ألا تظن أيها الغريب أن ثمة نوعاً من الرجال تكمن كل قوة جاذبيته، كل مميزاته وكل سحره، في عجزه عن أن يكون سعيداً؟”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
“الحاضر ليس سوى استمرار لمحادثة بدأت منذ زمن طويل”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Casanova in Bolzano
Sándor Márai
Born place: in Kassa (today Košice in Slovakia), Hungary
Born date April 11, 1900
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“What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.”
― Susanna Clarke, quote from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, quote from The Virgin Suicides
“To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling,
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Lord of the Rings
“We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.”
“Are you saying you are monsters?”
“I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Feast for Crows
“Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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