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It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.
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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
Alfred Polgar
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It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
Alfred Polgar -
Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.
Alfred Polgar -
The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
Alfred Polgar -
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
Alfred Polgar -
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
Alfred Polgar