"All secret human relationships - friendship, love and those strange ties when adversaries meet and cross paths, for life and death! - it begins with this magical touch; with the dream-like perception, which really is as if a person perceives reality in a dream: in a crowd, among strangers, a pair of eyes, a voice touch you at the same time, and it is as if you are dizzy, as if you have already experienced the present once, as if you know in advance everything that will happen, words and movements too; and all this is the most serious, fatal reality; and at the same time dreamy.
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Márai SándorAll Translations
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All secret human relationships - friendship, love and those strange ties when adversaries meet and cross paths, for life and death! - it begins with this magical touch; with the dream-like perception, which really is as if a person perceives reality in a dream: in a crowd, among strangers, a pair of eyes, a voice touch you at the same time, and it is as if you are dizzy, as if you have already experienced the present once, as if you know in advance everything that will happen, words and movements too; and all this is the most serious, fatal reality; and at the same time dreamy.
""Minden titkos emberi kapcsolat - barátság, szerelem s azok a különös kötöttségek, mikor ellenfelek találkoznak és szegődnek el, életre-halálra! - ezzel a varázsos megérintettséggel kezdődik; az álomszerű érzékeléssel, amely igazán olyan, mintha az álomban a valóságot érzékelné az ember: tömegben, idegenek között egyszerre megérint egy szempár, egy hang, s mintha elszédülnél, mintha a jelent egyszer már megélted volna, mintha előre tudnád mindazt, ami történni fog, a szavakat és mozdulatokat is; s mindez a legkomolyabb, végzetes valóság; s ugyanakkor álomszerű."