Sándor Márai
Embers is a novel by Sándor Márai and stands among his recognized works of fiction, alongside The Rebels.
Márai was born on April 11, 1900, in Košice, under the full name Márai Grosschmid Sándor Károly Henrik. He studied at Leipzig University and at Eötvös Loránd University, and worked across several forms throughout his career: as a journalist, an opinion journalist, a novelist, a poet, a screenwriter, and a translator. He wrote in Hungarian, and also worked in German and English. A Hungarian citizen, he received both the Kossuth Prize and the Hungarian Heritage Award in recognition of his work.
Márai died in San Diego on February 21, 1989. The Hungarian Heritage Award he received stands as a concrete marker of the recognition that came to him before his death, nearly nine decades after his birth in Košice.
Quotes by Sándor Márai
Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.
There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.
One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all, another person’s excellence of character or intellect.
I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.
Bắt đầu anh muốn viết những điều to tát. Sau đó muốn viết hay. Sau đó nữa là viết một cái gì đó vĩ đại, đạo đức, cân đối. Rồi đến thời kỳ đình công và đến lúc anh chỉ muốn viết sự thật. Anh sẽ nhận ra rằng sự thật vừa to lớn, vừa đẹp, vừa vĩ đại, đạo đức và cân đối.
Que significa fidelidade, que é que podemos esperar da pessoa que amamos? (…) A fidelidade não será um egoísmo terrível, egoísmo e vaidade, como a maior parte das coisas e pretensões humanas na vida? Quando exigimos fidelidade, queremos que a outra pessoa seja feliz? E se a outra pessoa não é feliz na prisão subtil da fidelidade, amamos essa pessoa de quem exigimos fidelidade? E se não amamos o outro de modo a fazê-lo feliz, temos o direito de exigir algo, fidelidade ou sacrifício?
There are times I almost believe that anything possible to be done should be done, not just because it’s good or makes sense, simply because it’s possible.