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"Big things" don't happen in life. If we later look back and look for the moment when something decisive and irreparable happened to us - the "experience" or "accident" that made up our later life - we usually only find such modest traces, or not even that much. There really is no other "experience" but family; and there is no other "tragedy", only the moment when you have to decide whether you will remain in the family and its wide-ranging versions, in the "class", in the world view, in the race - or on your own path, and you know that now you are alone forever, you are free, but everyone's prey, and only you can help yourself.

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"Big things" don't happen in life. If we later look back and look for the moment when something decisive and irreparable happened to us - the "experience" or "accident" that made up our later life - we usually only find such modest traces, or not even that much. There really is no other "experience" but family; and there is no other "tragedy", only the moment when you have to decide whether you will remain in the family and its wide-ranging versions, in the "class", in the world view, in the race - or on your own path, and you know that now you are alone forever, you are free, but everyone's prey, and only you can help yourself.

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Hungarian

"Az életben nem történnek "nagy dolgok". Ha később visszanézünk, s keressük a pillanatot, mikor valami elhatározó, jóvátehetetlen történt velünk - az "élmény" vagy "baleset", mely későbbi életünket alkotta -, legtöbbször csak ilyen szerény nyomokat találunk, vagy még ennyit se. Igazában nincs más "élmény", csak a család; s nincs más "tragédia", csak a pillanat, mikor döntened kell, megmaradsz-e a családban, s annak nagy, széles sugárkörben táguló változataiban, az "osztály"-ban, a világnézetben, a fajtában - vagy mégy a magad útján, s tudod, hogy most már örökre egyedül maradtál, szabad vagy, de mindenki prédája, s csak te segíthetsz magadon."

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