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Book by Sándor Márai · 21 quotes · Embers, Love, Beckett

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“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart, for the heart, too, has its night and its wild surges, as strong an instinct for the hunt as a wolf or a stag. The human night is filled with the crouching forms of dreams, desires, vanities, self-interest, mad love, envy, and the thirst for revenge, as the desert night conceals the puma, the hawk and the jackal.”

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“Byla neurčitelná a nezařaditelná, jako by ji úplne nepojímala žádná národnost a třída, jako by se příroda jednou pokusila vytvořit samostatnou nezávislou a svobodnou bytost, někoho, kdo nepatří do žádné vrstvy a k žádnému původu...její pýcha byla jíná než těch, kdo si zakládají na své hodnosti, původu, majetku...byla hrdá na tu ušlechtilou divokost, která již přebývala v srdci a v nervech jako nějaký jed a dědicství...Nebylo možné ji urazit, nebylo možné ji postavit před situaci, před níž by couvla, nesnášela omezování v jakémkoli smyslu slova. A znala ješte něco, co se v ženských charakterech objevuje vzácně: znala vnitřní odpovědnost vyplývající z lidské důstojnosti.”

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“They had no need of one of those pacts of the kind that are in common among boys of their age, who swear friendship with comical solemn rituals and the sort of portentous intensity invoked by people when for the first time they experience, in unconscious and distorted form, the need to remove another human being from the world, body and soul, and make him uniquely theirs. For that is the hidden force within both friendship and love. Their friendship was deep and wordless, as are all the emotions that will last a lifetime. And like all great emotions, this one contained within itself both shame and a sense of guilt, for no one may isolate one of his fellows from the rest of humanity with impunity.”

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“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?”

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