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Two hundred and two themes talk about life, ideals, morality, love, friendship, pain, etc. These constitute the constants of human life and weave into each person's complex destiny. This is a sincere book of life and a wisdom secret with powerful spiritual power. It teaches us how to love, how to heal, how to let go, how to face death, and how to overcome fear... Malloy, a writer known for his melancholic and elegiac style, is also a wise and profound essayist, a persevering and self-denying thinker, and a friendly and compassionate life mentor: he cares about people's living conditions and the meaning of life, asks about the truth, feels about the world, and laments the circumstances; and then, he is warm-hearted. This collection of essays condenses Malloy's life's exquisite musings and fully reveals his inner world. It is precious and a complement to him as a thinker. In addition to being a writer, Malloy was also an important intellectual in the twentieth century.

Malloy Sandor's youth began in Germany. In 1919, he left Kausau and studied at the Leipzig School of Journalism. In Germany, he realized his literary dream and became a columnist for the Frankfurter Zeitung along with famous writers such as Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno. Thereafter, he traveled throughout Europe, to East Asia, and finally returned to Budapest. For ten years, he was a traveler, writer and journalist. He gazed at the European continent between the two world wars with a calm and rational eye. He glimpsed the twilight moment of civilization through the prosperous surface, and revealed the decadent dark side hidden by beauty: the decline of humanistic traditions, the disintegration of moral ethics, and the disappearance of spiritual homeland. He also recalled the lost world of yesterday with his fiery and sensual pen and fiery sincerity, making his words a lasting reminder of time and history, leaving a testimony for the era behind him. From leaving a foreign land to returning home, it begins with exploration and ends with enlightenment. Malloy experienced the loneliness and confusion of wandering, the uninhibitedness and romance of youth, the friendship and love across classes, and finally confirmed and shouldered his "mission as a Hungarian writer." What he tells is not only his personal destiny, but also the destiny of a generation of European intellectuals.