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Bolesław Prus - The Doll (1890)

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

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

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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Bolesław Prus

Bolesław Prus
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Born: August 20, 1847
Died: May 19, 1912 (aged 64)
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