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The Door QUOTES

The Door QUOTES

1 " As I listened I felt a dull numbness, like the effect of chloroform, rather than the primal, anarchic agony you usually feel when you encounter someone you have loved now turned to dust, in some object like a little bowl, and you are required to believe that it is still the same person who once smiled at you. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

2 " Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

3 " I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

4 " She was lonely. Who isn't lonely, I'd like to know? And that includes people who do have someone but just haven't noticed. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

5 " Books formed the basis of my world, my unit of measure was the printed word, "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

6 " Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed—stimulus and composure, inner peace and a kind of bitter-sweet excitement. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

7 " We were both wrong: she who put her faith in me, and I who thought too well of myself. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

8 " God usually ignored us when asked for something, but he invariably granted what we feared. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

9 " Once again her face changed. She was like someone standing in strong sunlight on a mountain top, looking back down the valley from which she had emerged and trembling with the memory still in her bones of the length and nature of the road she had travelled, the glaciers and forded rivers, the weariness and danger, and conscious of how far she still had to go. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

10 " If there's no-one to show pleasure when you come home, then it's better not to live. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

11 " I was still rather young, and I hadn't thought it through, how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

12 " Нищо не ми идваше наум, аз само върху листа хартия знам какво да правя, в реалния живот трудно намирам правилните думи. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

13 " Nem látja, hogy rám hiába villog, nekem senki se kell, aki nem tökéletesen az enyém? Maga mindenkit berakna egy dobozba, aztán mikor ki kell, azt veszi elő, ez itt a barátnőm, ez az unokatestvérem, ez az öreg keresztanyám, ez a szerelmem, ez az orvosom, ez a préselt virág Rhodosz szigetéről, na, hagyjon engem békén. Ha egyszer nem leszek, majd nézzen ki olykor a temetőbe, az elég, ha nem vállaltam azt az embert barátnak, mert férjnek óhajtottam, maga se játssza itt nekem azt, hogy maga az én meg nem született gyermekem. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

14 " Пийте си кафето, какво сте зяпнали, не само вие сте била влюбена. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

15 " In my student days, I detested Schopenhauer. Only later did I come to acknowledge the force of his idea that every relationship involving personal feeling laid one open to attack, and the more people I allowed to become close to me, the greater the number of ways in which I was vulnerable. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

16 " Writing isn’t an easy taskmaster. Sentences left unfinished never continue as well as they had begun. New ideas bend the main arch of the text, and it never again sits perfectly true. Anyway, "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

17 " She also demanded of me that, in my art, it should be real passion and not machinery that moved the branches. That was a major gift, the greatest of her bequests. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

18 " Fáradt vagy, mert főzöl, és takarítasz, és vásárolsz, és nem sikerül senkit se találnod, akit elviselsz a közeledben, mert nem valakit keresel te, hanem azt az egyetlent, aki soha többé nem jön el hozzád, Emerencet. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

19 " Emerence was spontaneously good, unthinkingly generous, able to reveal her orphaned condition only to another orphan, but never giving voice to her utter loneliness. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door

20 " Everything has to be done properly, even death. "

― Magda Szabó , The Door