Sándor Márai, Embers Quotes

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.