“ There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect. ”
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.
~ Sándor Márai
لا شئ أخطر من رجل لا يخضع للطاغية
أن تعيش يعني أحياناً أن تنتظر
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.
