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Through my eyes I sucked in poisoned words, far richer than I knew; and some strange power, with the power of words, recreated in me the story of madmen with whom I had nothing to do, the gnawing sadness, the slow destruction of an entire life: what if the words infect me, and the poisoning becomes fatal? I absorbed the word, I was absorbed by the image, and in the end the only thing that saved me was that the two simultaneous dangers mutually neutralized each other.

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Through my eyes I sucked in poisoned words, far richer than I knew; and some strange power, with the power of words, recreated in me the story of madmen with whom I had nothing to do, the gnawing sadness, the slow destruction of an entire life: what if the words infect me, and the poisoning becomes fatal? I absorbed the word, I was absorbed by the image, and in the end the only thing that saved me was that the two simultaneous dangers mutually neutralized each other.

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Hungarian

"Szememen keresztül mérgezett szavakat szívtam magamba, sokkal dúsabbakat, mint amilyeneket tudtam; s valami különös hatalom a szavak erejével újrateremtette bennem olyan őrültek történetét, akikhez semmi közöm nem volt, a marcangoló szomorúságot, egy egész élet lassú pusztulását: hátha megfertőznek a szavak, s halálos lesz a mérgezés? Szívtam magamba a szót, engem szívott magába a kép, s végeredményben csak az mentett meg, hogy a két egyidejű veszedelem kölcsönösen semlegesítette egymást."

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