QUOTES

We need sacrifice in order to lose ourselves and find our identity.
Miklós Mészöly
A good style makes everything demonstrable, a great style makes everything great; in short, it is all just a matter of style; in other words, it is all lies.
Imre Kertész
...that's life: a quiet, constant, permanent, well-mannered leave-taking.
Sándor Márai
The impatient are unhappy, because they always want something and always get what they didn't want.
Péter Nádas
Everything you call transcendental and earthly is one and the same thing, existing together with you in a single time and single space.
László Krasznahorkai
Those who lose their whole find their parts.
Dezső Tandori
I don’t get to the opera as often as I’d like. I’m too busy crawling on my belly, wiping out my fellow men.
A letter by István Örkény to a friend from the Russian front in World War II
I would have liked it if it was that way. / It wasn't that way. / I asked: be that way. / So it became that way.
Dezső Tandori
Your lies wait for you around the corner.
András Forgách
Luck is the ballgown of the accidental. And the accidental is God's disguise here in the world.
Tamás Jónás
The most primal principle of life is theatrical: the jellyfish in the fairylike-fatal underworld of the sea, the coconut periwigs in the Gothic fan-towers of palms, the fetid head of an embryo at the end of the umbilical cord, jasmine, horseradish, sicknesses: these are all theatrical, colorful, simulating and subterfuges. Not lies, just masks, mimics. That is what history is too; that is the darkest instinct of life. That and art. The darkest and also the loneliest.
Miklós Szentkuthy