Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz - Page 1

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
Henryk Sienkiewicz / Journalist
Exhausted
Fields
Marijuana
Weed
Grow
Field
Weeds
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The sky is one whole, the water another
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Sky
Water
Whole
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Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
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Laughing
Laughter
People
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England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
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England
Eternal
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Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
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Depends
Merit
Results
Evidently
Result
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He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.
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Always Smile
Contemplating
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I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
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Church
Regard
Skepticism
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Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
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Children
Novelists
Writing
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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
Profession
Reader
Thorns
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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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Beads
Form
Rosary
Two
Variety
Weather
Unless
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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
Instinct
Moral
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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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Exhausted
Poland
Proof
Triumph
Dead
Enslaved
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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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Men
Loneliness
Lonely
Sky
Soul
Two
Water
Whole
Between
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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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Character
Mask
Real
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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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Source
Spring
Thinking
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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
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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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Compassion
Flower
Sea
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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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Civilization
Ideas
Thinking
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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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Four
Soul
Three
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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
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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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Fear
Darkness
Rain
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This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
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Achievement
Doe
Fertile
Genius
Homage
Polish
Soil
Rendered
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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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Religion
Independence
Elsewhere
Long
Originality
French
Exist
Writers
Regulator
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There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
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Idlers
Lazy
Writing
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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
Bird
Two
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A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon.
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Men
Faithful
Giving
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An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.
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Daydreaming
Mood
Political
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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
Growing
Growing Old
Infinity
Mysterious
Sea
Life Man May
Calls
Darker
Dearer
Deeply
Thus
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My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.
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Competition
Humanity
Struggle
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In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
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Fear
People
Window Panes
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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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Heart
Laughter
Pain
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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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Europe
Reflection
Views
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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
Order
Thinking
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