"Something is chasing me. It's like I'm always missing something. I track it down, I get it, and then it turns out that there was nothing. And I'm after something else again. I know in advance that it will end the same as the other one, but I can't let it go. It chases, pursues, then occupies you for a while, but leaves you again, and emptiness remains; it's like hunger, it always catches up again.
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Author
Erich Maria RemarqueAll Translations
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Something is chasing me. It's like I'm always missing something. I track it down, I get it, and then it turns out that there was nothing. And I'm after something else again. I know in advance that it will end the same as the other one, but I can't let it go. It chases, pursues, then occupies you for a while, but leaves you again, and emptiness remains; it's like hunger, it always catches up again.
""Valami hajszol engem. Mintha mindig elszalasztanék valamit. Utánakapok, megszerzem, és akkor kiderül, hogy nem volt semmi. És én megint másvalami után kapkodok. Előre tudom, hogy ugyanúgy végződik majd az is, mint a másik, de nem bírom kihagyni. Hajszol, üldöz, aztán egy ideig elfoglal, de megint csak elhagy, és marad az üresség; olyan ez, mint az éhség, mindig újra elfog."