"There is something about winter that reminds you of your childhood, more directly and painfully than other seasons. In the blue-gray color of the snow, in the twilight of the rooms, in the raw, nose-squeezing smell of the stoves, there is something confidential and forever lost in all of this. The memory makes me shudder. The memory of childhood in winter is like a bleak, abandoned apartment from which everyone we loved has moved out, like an apartment from which the furniture has been taken away and which can no longer be heated.
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Márai SándorAll Translations
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There is something about winter that reminds you of your childhood, more directly and painfully than other seasons. In the blue-gray color of the snow, in the twilight of the rooms, in the raw, nose-squeezing smell of the stoves, there is something confidential and forever lost in all of this. The memory makes me shudder. The memory of childhood in winter is like a bleak, abandoned apartment from which everyone we loved has moved out, like an apartment from which the furniture has been taken away and which can no longer be heated.
""Valami van a télben, ami a gyermekkora emlékeztet, közvetlenül és fájdalmasabban, mint más évszakok. A hó kékesszürke színében, a szobák alkonyatában, a kályhák nyers, orrfacsaró illatában, mindebben van valami bizalmas és örökre elveszett. Ez az emlék didergésre késztet. Olyan a gyermekkor emléke télen, mint egy sivár, elhagyott lakás, ahonnan kiköltözött mindenki, akit szerettünk, mint egy lakás, melyből elhordták a bútorokat, s melyet nem lehet többé kifűteni."