Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

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

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

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  Spring, Thinking, Source

  Henryk Sienkiewicz, W. S. Kuniczak (1999). “Quo Vadis”, p.27, Hippocrene Books

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• On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

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  Weed, Marijuana, Fields

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

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  Laughter, People, Laughing

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2015). “Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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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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  Enemy, Moral, Instinct

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Merit, Results, Depends

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “So Runs the World”, London : F. T. Neely

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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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  Flower, Compassion, Sea

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1912). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.138, Library of Alexandria

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• I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.

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  Fall, Thinking, Order

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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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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  Real, Character, Mask

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

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  Triumph, Exhausted, Proof

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

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• I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

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  Church, Skepticism, Regard

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• Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

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  Children, Writing, Novelists

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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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  Anxiety, Bears, Easy

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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

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  Dream, Doe, Thorns

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “So Runs the World”, London : F. T. Neely

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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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  Soul, Three, Four

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1998). “Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero”, p.37, Regnery Publishing

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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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  Weather, Two, Rosary

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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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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  Thinking, Civilization, Ideas

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

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  Men, Sea, Growing

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

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  Always Smile, Contemplating

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1912). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.147, Library of Alexandria

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• England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

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  England, Eternal

  Sienkiewicz, Henryk (2016). “In Desert And Wilderness”, p.19, Read Books Ltd

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• Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

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  Reflection, Views, Europe

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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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  Class, Effort, Understanding

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

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  Character, Done, Might

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• Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

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  Laughter, Pain, Heart

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing

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• The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.

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  Men, Two, Bird

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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