"The easy floating is always brought about by unexpected things (...), which are already beyond what is necessary, unimportant and apparently useless things - and this is because they belong to that certain other side of existence, to the sunnier, to the indispensable , to the playful and dreamy. After the years spent near death, the wine is not just wine, the silver is not just silver, the music that crept into the room from somewhere is not just music, (...) all this became a symbol of another life, a life without murder and destruction, for life of real life, which is almost a legend, a vivid and hopeless daydream.
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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Translations
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The easy floating is always brought about by unexpected things (...), which are already beyond what is necessary, unimportant and apparently useless things - and this is because they belong to that certain other side of existence, to the sunnier, to the indispensable , to the playful and dreamy. After the years spent near death, the wine is not just wine, the silver is not just silver, the music that crept into the room from somewhere is not just music, (...) all this became a symbol of another life, a life without murder and destruction, for life of real life, which is almost a legend, a vivid and hopeless daydream.
""A könnyű lebegést mindig a váratlan dolgok hozzák (...), melyek a szükségesen már túl vannak, a fontosság nélküli s látszólag haszontalan dolgok - s ez azért van így, mert ezek a létnek ama bizonyos másik oldalához tartoznak, a naposabbikhoz, a nélkülözhetőhöz, a játékoshoz és álomszerűhöz. A halál közelségében eltöltött esztendők után a bor nem egyszerűen bor, az ezüst nemcsak ezüst, a zene, amely valahonnan belopakodott a terembe, nemcsak zene, (...) mindez egy másik élet jelképe lett, a gyilkosság és rombolás nélküli életé, az életért való életé, mely már-már csak legenda, eleven és reménytelen álmodozás."