La mujer justa Quotes

“Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.”
― Sándor Márai, Judit... és az utóhang

“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.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded, so you are willing to argue, to overcome and be overcome, and grow richer by what you have learned, not only in the book, but in life, or by being able to make something of your work.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Tomorrow, everyone who is beautiful will come under suspicion. As will those with talent and those with character.” His voice was hoarse. “Don’t you understand? To be called beautiful will be an insult; talent will be called a provocation, and character an outrage. Because it’s their turn now, and they will appear everywhere, from everywhere, emerging in their hundreds of millions and more. Everywhere. The ugly ones, the talentless, those without any character. And they’ll throw vitriol in the face of beauty. They will tar and slander talent. They will stab through the heart anyone with character. They’re here already … And there’ll be more of them. Be careful!”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“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.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Their hearts and guts never had a moment of peace. They were afraid that all the calculations, all the planning, all that keeping things tidy, weren't worth anything: that one day it would all be over. But what did they really think would be over? The family? The factory? The money? No, these people knew that what they were afraid of was nowhere near so simple. What they were afraid of was that one day they'd have no energy left and be too tired to hold things together...that everything they had scraped together would fall apart, and then their "culture" would be done for.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“«Improvvisamente ho capito che non c'è nessuna persona giusta. Non esiste né in terra né in cielo né da nessun'altra parte, puoi starne certa. Esistono soltanto le persone, e in ognuna c'è un pizzico di quella giusta, ma in nessuna c'è tutto quello che ci aspettiamo e speriamo. Nessuna racchiude in sé tutto questo, e non esiste quella certa figura, l'unica, la meravigliosa, la sola che potrà darci la felicità. Esistono soltanto delle persone, e in ognuna ci sono scorie e raggi di luce, tutto…».”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“No es cierto que el sufrimiento nos purifique y nos haga mejores, más sabios y comprensivos. Nos vuelve demasiado lúcidos, fríos e indiferentes”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Las palabras justas llegan después y hay que pagar un alto precio por ellas.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Hace falta mucho valor para dejarse amar sin reservas. Un valor que es casi heroísmo. La mayoría de la gente no puede dar ni recibir amor porque es cobarde y orgullosa, porque tiene miedo al fracaso. Le da vergüenza entregarse a otra persona y más aún rendirse a ella porque teme que descubra su secreto... el triste secreto de cada ser humano: que necesita mucha ternura, que no puede vivir sin amor.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Lei sa meglio di me che in amore non si può fare a metà» dissi.
«È un luogo comune» replicò seccato, e si accese un'altra sigaretta. «Tutto è possibile. E' proprio in amore che tutto è possibile.»”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities; one’s sentimental and psychological values go out the window.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“You see what I mean? Being rich must be a condition, much like sickness or health. Say you are rich, you might, in some mysterious way, be rich forever, but however much money you have, you never feel properly rich. Maybe you need to believe in your wealth in order to be properly rich - I mean, the way saints and revolutionaries believe they are different. And you can't afford to feel guilty if you are rich: if you felt guilty for a second you'd be finished. The not-truly-rich, those who have visions of the poor while indulging in a beefsteak and drinking Champagne, will eventually lose out, because they are insincere in their wealth. They're not rich out of conviction, they are only pretending, cowardly, sneakily, to be rich. You have to be very disciplined to be rich. You can perform a few charitable acts, but only as a kind of a fig leaf.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Talvolta, nelle situazioni più tragiche, ci si trova all'improvviso al di là del dolore e della disperazione e si diventa stranamente sobri, distaccati, quasi di buon umore.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa/ The Fair Women

“Nella vita ci sono momenti del genere, in cui si prova una sorta di vertigine e si vede tutto con assoluta lucidità: si riscoprono energie e potenzialità nascoste e si comprende perchè si è stati troppo codardi o troppo deboli. E sono i momenti in cui la nostra vita cambia. Arrivano all'improvviso, come la morte, o una conversione”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Al niño pobre no le importa la suciedad, puede tirarse y revolcarse en ella. Y no es necesario lavarse las manos si uno es pobre, ¿para qué? La pobreza sólo es mala para los adultos, muy mala...”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“La vida se queda vacía si no la llenas con alguna tarea peligrosa y emocionante. Y esa tarea no puede ser otra que el trabajo. El otro trabajo, el invisible, es el trabajo del alma, del espíritu, del talento, cuyos frutos cambian el mundo y lo hacen más próspero, justo y humano.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Cuando quiere crear algo, la vida realiza escenificaciones perfectas.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“¿Me preguntas cómo se llega a la verdad, a la curación, a la capacidad de disfrutar? Te lo diré, amigo mío. Te lo diré en dos palabras. Humildad y conocimiento de uno mismo. Ése es todo el secreto.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Nothing had happened, and yet, as if by magic, at a whistle from some fairy or demon, the city came alive, just like in those tales where the wicked wizard vanishes in a puff of smoke and the enchanted, apparently dead leap to their feet. The hands of the clock start moving round again, the clock ticks, the spring bubbles up. That war drifted away like a wicked demon: it tramped off westward. And now, whatever remained of the city, of society, sprang to life with such passion, fury, and sheer willpower, with such strength and stamina and cunning, it seemed nothing had happened.”
― Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage

“Es el mayor dolor de la vida, amar a alguien y saber que no puedes vivir con él.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“No se puede amar tanto, no se debe amar tanto a nadie, ni siquiera a los propios hijos. Todo amor supone un egoísmo desenfrenado”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“¡La cultura, mi respetada señora, es un reflejo condicionado!»”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Pero los burgueses sí que tenían miedo a morir, igual que a vivir. Por eso eran religiosos, parcos y virtuosos. Porque tenían miedo...”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Los únicos que viven tranquilos son los que viven el momento. Igual que los ateos, los que no creen en Dios, son los únicos que no tienen miedo a la muerte...”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“cuando un ser humano obedece a la ley de su cuerpo y de su alma nunca es ridículo.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Porque la soledad también es una especie de enfermedad, mejor dicho, un estado en el que nos acomodamos, una condición que transforma al hombre en un animal disecado en una vitrina.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“La soledad, esa terrible soledad en la que se habían consumido sus vidas, las vidas típicas de una clase social triunfante, acomodada y ceremoniosa.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“A Lázár le gustaba mucho El sueño, una obra de teatro de Strindberg. ¿La conoces? Yo nunca la he visto. Él citaba a menudo algunas líneas o resumía alguna escena. Decía que en ese drama hay un personaje cuyo mayor deseo es que la vida le conceda una caja de pesca verde, ya sabes, una de esas cajitas de color verde en las que los pescadores guardan hilo, anzuelos y cebo. El personaje envejece, le pasa la vida por encima y, por fin, un día los dioses se apiadan de él y deciden regalarle la caja de pesca... Y entonces el personaje, con el tan deseado presente en las manos, se acerca al proscenio, observa durante un buen rato la cajita y luego, con profunda tristeza, dice: «No era este verde...»”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“There are frighteningly many shades of gentility between poverty and wealth. And from poverty down, how many shades of poverty do you think there are? You are wealthy, so you can't know the enormous difference between four hundred and six hundred a month. It's a bigger difference than between two thousand and ten thousand a month. I know a great deal about this now.”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa