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Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

Henryk Sienkiewicz quotes

Polish Novelist, Writer May 5, 1846 – November 15, 1916

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...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz quote: "The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two..."
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? Henryk Sienkiewicz
At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, rose on his fore paws and began to gaze at them. The sun, which now stood low, illuminated his huge head and shaggy breasts, and in that ruddy luster he was like one of those sphinxes which ornament the entrances to ancient Egyptian temples. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz quote: "The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the..."
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz quote: "Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work."
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz quote: "What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes..."
What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood? Henryk Sienkiewicz
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. Henryk Sienkiewicz
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. Henryk Sienkiewicz
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. Henryk Sienkiewicz
They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were so much alike that the bodies of the Europeans, Egyptians, and negroes could not be distinguished from each other. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz quote: "On an exhausted field, only weeds grow."
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz quote: "Oj, pjdziewa w yto, Bo dobra, kobieto!"
Oj, pjdziewa w yto, Bo dobra, kobieto! Henryk Sienkiewicz

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