I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves.

But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, its memories, its past, present and future, all of which we seal into a single destiny each time we face ourselves and utter that tiny, unalterable word: 'I.

Auteur: Dezső Kosztolányi