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You can't build strong relationships in a time crunch. The value of a relationship can also be measured by how much time the partners devote to each other, how much they care for each other. Sometimes it's enough just to be together in silence. In one of his poems, Kosztolányi writes about an international company traveling by train: "Our silences do not connect in the end, since I listen in Hungarian, they in Swedish." Very clever. Because there is also a kind of silence between men and women that does not match. That doesn't count as time. It is fundamentally important whether they listen together or separately.

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You can't build strong relationships in a time crunch. The value of a relationship can also be measured by how much time the partners devote to each other, how much they care for each other. Sometimes it's enough just to be together in silence. In one of his poems, Kosztolányi writes about an international company traveling by train: "Our silences do not connect in the end, since I listen in Hungarian, they in Swedish." Very clever. Because there is also a kind of silence between men and women that does not match. That doesn't count as time. It is fundamentally important whether they listen together or separately.

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Hungarian

"Időzavarban nem lehet erős kapcsolatokat építeni. Egy kapcsolat értéke is lemérhető azon, hogy a partnerek mennyi időt szánnak egymásra az életükből, mennyit törődnek egymással. Néha az is elég, ha csak együtt vannak csöndben. Kosztolányi írja egyik versében egy vonaton utazó nemzetközi társaságról: "Csöndjeink nem érnek össze végül, mivelhogy én magyarul hallgatok, ők svédül." Nagyon okos. Ugyanis olyan hallgatás is van férfi és nő között, ami nem ér össze. Az nem számít időnek. Alapvetően lényeges, hogy együtt hallgatnak-e, vagy külön-külön."

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