"Before that, there were many things... security, background, faith, goals... all friendly places where I could always find my feet when love shook me. Today I have nothing... at most I have some despair, a little courage, and otherwise everything is foreign, outside, inside. When love falls on it, it is like a plume in dry straw. When you have nothing left but this, then it is also different... wilder, more important and more destructive than it was before.
"
Author
Erich Maria RemarqueAll Translations
All Translations
"
Before that, there were many things... security, background, faith, goals... all friendly places where I could always find my feet when love shook me. Today I have nothing... at most I have some despair, a little courage, and otherwise everything is foreign, outside, inside. When love falls on it, it is like a plume in dry straw. When you have nothing left but this, then it is also different... wilder, more important and more destructive than it was before.
""Azelőtt sok minden volt... biztonság, háttér, hit, célok... csupa barátságos tájék, ahol mindig megvethettem a lábam, ha a szerelem megrázott. Ma már semmim sincs... legfeljebb némi kétségbeesésem, egy kis bátorságom, és különben minden idegen, kívül, belül. Ha erre száll a szerelem, az olyan, mint a csóva a száraz szalmában. Amikor már semmid sincs, csak ez maradt, akkor ez is más... vadabb, fontosabb és pusztítóbb, mint volt azelőtt."