"We lived, we didn't live, who really cares?... We will be wise as the wine we drank, and we will talk about the judgment of posterity with a shrug. Because the bottom of all wisdom, which the Hungarian learned from domestic wine and education, is this: you have to love life, and you don't have to care about the judgment of the world. Everything else is vanity.
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Márai SándorAll Translations
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We lived, we didn't live, who really cares?... We will be wise as the wine we drank, and we will talk about the judgment of posterity with a shrug. Because the bottom of all wisdom, which the Hungarian learned from domestic wine and education, is this: you have to love life, and you don't have to care about the judgment of the world. Everything else is vanity.
""Éltünk, nem éltünk, kinek fontos igazán?... Bölcsek leszünk, mint a bor, melyet ittunk, s vállvonogatva beszélünk az utókor istenítéletéről. Mert minden bölcsesség alja, melyet a Magyar hazai borból és a műveltségből tanult, ennyi: szeretni kell az életet, s nem kell törődni a világ ítéletével. Minden más hiúság."