Sándor Márai
Born
in Kassa (today Košice in Slovakia), Hungary
April 11, 1900
Died
February 22, 1989
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Embers
134 editions
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1942
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La mujer justa
by
53 editions
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1941
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La herencia de Eszter
by
65 editions
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published
1939
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Divorcio en Buda
by
34 editions
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published
1935
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Casanova in Bolzano
by
62 editions
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published
1940
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The Rebels
by
33 editions
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published
1930
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Les Confessions d'un bourgeois
by
31 editions
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published
1935
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La hermana
by
19 editions
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published
1946
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Herbario
19 editions
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published
1943
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Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
29 editions
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1971
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“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 of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.”
― Embers
― Embers
“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 be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.”
― Embers
― Embers
“Do you also believe that what gives our lives their meaning is the passion that suddenly invades us heart, soul, and body, and burns in us forever, no matter what else happens in our lives? And that if we have experienced this much, then perhaps we haven’t lived in vain? Is passion so deep and terrible and magnificent and inhuman? Is it indeed about desiring any one person, or is it about desiring desire itself? That is the question. Or perhaps, is it indeed about desiring a particular person, a single, mysterious other, once and for always, no matter whether that person is good or bad, and the intensity of our feelings bears no relation to that individual’s qualities or behavior?”
― Embers
― Embers
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