"You have to learn that what you don't care about will be taken and overtaken, what or who is not so important to you, you will be both important and precious to him, the woman you are cold to will roll her eyes at you, the money you won't stoop to , one day he will come into your life... Yes, life is just like in bad novels. But also somewhat like in good novels. (...) Then you notice that the woman you love whistles at you, even though you charm her with coldness, the money you worked for doesn't come back to you, even at the expense of judges and lawyers, the success you didn't reach for, but you deserve, arrogantly he drives past you with some kind of bag in his lap. That's when you blink, you don't understand. This is difficult.
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Márai SándorAll Translations
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You have to learn that what you don't care about will be taken and overtaken, what or who is not so important to you, you will be both important and precious to him, the woman you are cold to will roll her eyes at you, the money you won't stoop to , one day he will come into your life... Yes, life is just like in bad novels. But also somewhat like in good novels. (...) Then you notice that the woman you love whistles at you, even though you charm her with coldness, the money you worked for doesn't come back to you, even at the expense of judges and lawyers, the success you didn't reach for, but you deserve, arrogantly he drives past you with some kind of bag in his lap. That's when you blink, you don't understand. This is difficult.
""Meg kell tanulni, hogy amire nem törsz, azt elhozzák és utolér, ami vagy aki neked nem olyan fontos, annak számára te egyszerre fontos és becses leszel, a nő, akihez hideg vagy, szemeit forgatja feléd, a pénz, mely után nem hajolsz le, egy napon bekéredzkedik életedbe... Igen, az élet egészen olyan, mint a rossz regényekben. De kissé olyan is, mint a jó regényekben. (...) Akkor észreveszed, hogy a nő, akit szeretsz, fütyül reád, hiába bűvölöd hidegséggel, a pénz, melyért megdolgoztál, bírói és ügyvédi erőlködés árán sem tér meg hozzád, a siker, mely után nem nyúltál, de megérdemelnéd, gőgösen elhajt melletted, ölében valamilyen ringyóval. Ilyenkor pislogsz, nem érted. Nehéz ez."