Aicha

“يمكن أن يكون لديك كل شيء في الحياة، يمكنك التغلب على كل ما حولك وفي العالم، كل شيء يمكن أن تعطيك إياه الحياة ويمكنك انتزاع كل شيء، لكن لا يمكنك أبداً تغيير الأذواق، الميول، الإيقاعات الحيوية لشخص محدد، هذه الخصوصية، هه الكيفية التي تجعلك خاصاً ومختلفاً التي تطبع الشخص الذي يهمك أمره.”
― شاندور ماراي, اللقاء الأخير

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.”
― Sándor Márai, Embers

“Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend. And Vienna was like another friend. When it rained in the tropics, I always heard the voice of Vienna. And at other times too. Sometimes deep in the virgin forests I smelled the musty smell of the entrance hall in Hietzing. Music and everything I loved was in the stones of Vienna, and in people's glances and their behavior, the way pure feelings are part of one's very heart. You know when the feelings stop hurting. Vienna in winter and spring. The allés in Schönbrunn. The blue light in the dormitory at the academy, the great white stairwell with the baroque statue. Morning ridings in the Prater. The mildew in the riding school. I remember all of it exactly, and I wanted to see it again...”
― Sándor Márai, Embers