"How differently, how much more warmly and intimately we are identified with our sins and disabilities than with our virtues and abilities! How much more characteristic of me is what is weak in me, what I desire and know is harmful to me, what I want, and for which I am not strong, wise and disciplined enough, than the fact that sometimes and still I pull myself together, I do something for my health, incidentally I fulfill my duties.
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Márai SándorAll Translations
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How differently, how much more warmly and intimately we are identified with our sins and disabilities than with our virtues and abilities! How much more characteristic of me is what is weak in me, what I desire and know is harmful to me, what I want, and for which I am not strong, wise and disciplined enough, than the fact that sometimes and still I pull myself together, I do something for my health, incidentally I fulfill my duties.
""Milyen különbül, mennyivel forróbban és bensőségesebben vagyunk azonosak bűneinkkel, fogyatékosságainkkal, mint erényeinkkel és képességeinkkel! Mennyivel inkább jellemez engem az, ami gyöngeség bennem, amire vágyom és tudom, hogy árt nekem, amit szeretnék, s amihez nem vagyok elég erős, bölcs és fegyelmezett, mint az, hogy néha és nagyjából mégis összeszedem magam, elkövetek valamit egészségemért is, mellékesen teljesítem kötelességeim."