Henryk Sienkiewicz Short Quotes

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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

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Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

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There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

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I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

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Kromitzki is dead! The catastrophe has come upon us like a thunderbolt. God keep Aniela from any harm in her present state.

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Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

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Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

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Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them...

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It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

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I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

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The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

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Let there be at once also the end of the world! O God! if that is to be my punishment, I swear I will go away, never to see her again in life, — only save her!

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In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

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