"Life really happens to a person (...) until he is forty or fifty-five years old. Then you already know something tangible, real; this knowledge is not wise, nor "deep", it does not satisfy; but by then one has seen the dead and the living, life repeats itself wonderfully, nothing happens as we expect, nothing is so surprising.
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Author
Márai SándorAll Translations
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Life really happens to a person (...) until he is forty or fifty-five years old. Then you already know something tangible, real; this knowledge is not wise, nor "deep", it does not satisfy; but by then one has seen the dead and the living, life repeats itself wonderfully, nothing happens as we expect, nothing is so surprising.
""Az emberrel (...) negyven-ötvenöt éves koráig valóságosan megtörténik az élet. Akkor már tud valami foghatót, igazit; ez a tudás nem bölcs, nem is "mély", nem elégít ki; de addig már látott az ember halottakat és élőket, az élet csodálatosan ismétlődik, semmi sem történik úgy, ahogy várjuk, semmi nem olyan meglepő."