Love, true love, is always fatal. What I mean is, it does not aim at happiness, at an idyll, at a hand-in-hand eternity of sentimental walks under flowering lime trees, with a gentle light burning on the veranda behind, the house swimming in cool scents. Life can be that, but not love. Love burns with a fierce, more dangerous flame. One day you discover a desire in yourself to encounter this all-consuming passion.

translated by George Szirtes

Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai

Hungarian author

11 April 1900 — 21 February 1989

Sándor Márai: Portraits of a Marriage

Portraits of a Marriage

Alfred A. Knopf

Literature
Stories

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Time of publication: September 24, 2011

Length: 417 characters

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