Bolesław Prus Quotes

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For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

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In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!... I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman... He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess... And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all...

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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

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Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

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Nature has done well and wisely, in not permitting a man to live forever and in bringing into the world ever new generations. An old person is a used-up machine [... He] has too many dogmas to [...] easily [...] believe in a new truth [...]; too many sympathies and antipathies [...] for him to come to love something unfamiliar; [...] too many habits to be able to settle on new ways. Let us add suspiciousness — the fruit of bitter experiences; a pessimism inseparable from all manner of disappointments; and finally, a general decline of powers from exhaustion [...].

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A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Bolesław Prus

Bolesław Prus

Bolesław Prus

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Born: August 20, 1847

Died: May 19, 1912 (aged 64)

Bio: Bolesław Prus, born Aleksander Głowacki, is a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy and a distinctive voice in world literature.

Known for:

The Doll (1890)
Pharaoh (1897)
Katarynka (1880)
The Outpost (1886)
The Pharaoh and the Priest (1902)

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