I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and a — Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and a — Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and a — Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and a — Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and a — Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
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I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

— Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
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