"The homeland is not only land and mountains, dead heroes, mother tongue, bones of our ancestors in cemeteries, bread and landscape, no. Home is you, skin and hair, in your physical and mental qualities; he gives birth, he buries you, you live and express him, in all the miserable, great, blazing and boring moments that make up your life. And your life is also a moment of the life of the homeland.
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Márai SándorAll Translations
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The homeland is not only land and mountains, dead heroes, mother tongue, bones of our ancestors in cemeteries, bread and landscape, no. Home is you, skin and hair, in your physical and mental qualities; he gives birth, he buries you, you live and express him, in all the miserable, great, blazing and boring moments that make up your life. And your life is also a moment of the life of the homeland.
""A haza nem csak föld és hegy, halott hősök, anyanyelv, őseink csontjai a temetőkben, kenyér és táj, nem. A haza te vagy, szőröstül-bőröstül, testi és lelki mivoltodban; ő szült, ő temet el, őt éled és fejezed ki, mind a nyomorult, nagyszerű, lángoló és unalmas pillanatokban, melyek összessége életed alkotja. S életed a haza életének egy pillanata is."