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Henryk Sienkiewicz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She
There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.
How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.
It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17
But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.
There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.
The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.
Besides, my old opinions - at least, the greater part of them - are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But
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.
It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.
Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.