“Așa-i de când lumea, că cine se introspectează prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine însuși, în cele din urmă, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine însuși, acela nu-i capabil să ia o hotărâre.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“ In genere, femeia nu-si insala barbatul si nu-l tradeaza, daca el singur nu-i acela care sa-i strice sau sa-i calce inima singur in picioare, daca nu o dezgusta ori n-o respinge prin micimea lui, prin egoismul lui, prin ingustimea vederilor. Deci, trebuie sa iubesti. Ca ea sa nu se simta numai femela ta, ci faptura cea mai scumpa pentru tine, copilul tau, prietenul tau; poart-o la san, ca sa-i fie cald si atunci poti fi sigur de ea, atunci, cu fiecare an care trece, se va lipi tot mai mult de tine, pana cand o sa va lipiti de tot, ca gemenii siamezi. Daca nu-i dai toate astea, o strici, o dezgusti prin nimicnicia ta si se indeparteaza. Te va parasi de indata ce maini mai nobile se vor intinde spre ea, caci trebuie s-o faca, are nevoie de caldura si de consideratie ca de aerul pe care-l respira.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul. Presupun că și inima ta are un asemenea înveliș; înăuntru se află metalul prețios, dar afurisita asta de coajă nu s-a topit de tot...”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Thoughts like mine are not reckoned among the delights of life. It is like the dog trying to catch his tail; he does not catch anything. I do not prove anything, only tire myself; but have the satisfaction that another day has passed, or another night gone by. I”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,—imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“The evil genius bent upon wrecking my life had not taken in account one thing: a man crushed and utterly wretched cares less for himself than a happy one. In presence of that indifference fate becomes more or less powerless. I was and am still in that frame of mind that, if angry Fortuna came to me in person, and said: "Go to perdition," I should reply calmly: "Be it so,"—not out of sorrow for the loss of Aniela, but from mere indifference to everything within or without me. This”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“The world has robbed me of my love, time has dried up hatred, and as the living individual must feel something, I live upon what remains to me. I must also say that he who feels and lives thus does not get a surfeit of happiness.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“I still seem to hear Sniatynski's words: "Do not philosophize her away, as you have philosophized away your abilities and your thirty-five years of life." I know it leads to nothing, I know it is wrong, but I do not know how not to think. 13”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“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”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“What a strange power there is in woman! She comes in contact with a genius without portfolio, an exceptionally useless implement like me, and then, without any preaching on her part, he feels himself in duty bound to do all sorts of things he never dreamed of doing before. The”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In conceiving this drama, Shakspeare overstepped the limit fixed even for genius. I can understand Homer and Dante, studied by the light of their epoch. I can comprehend that they could do what they did; but how an Englishman of the seventeenth century could foreknow psychosis, a science of recent growth, will be to me, in spite of my study of Hamlet, an everlasting mystery. Having”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Besides, my old opinions—at least, the greater part of them—are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,—less than nothing, because an object of aversion.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“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.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Truly times must be out of joint, when only asses have any power of action left, and those who have a little more intelligence use it to doubt everything, and to persuade themselves that it is not worth while to attempt anything.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
“Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Without Dogma
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Born place: in Wola Okrzejska, Poland
Born date May 5, 1846
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“Type of men who gather up seven of themselves to attack two women in the middle of the night generally won't go back for dead friends.”
― Mindy McGinnis, quote from Not a Drop to Drink
“I prefer my justice to be blind.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
“In Jerusalem, as elsewhere in Palestine, the Haganah's basic strategy reflected a philosophy propounded by David Ben-Gurion. What the Jews had, they must hold. No Jew was to leave his home, his farm, his kibbutz, his office without permission. Every outpost, every settlement, every village, no matter how isolated, was to be clung to as though it were Tel Aviv itself.”
― Larry Collins, quote from O Jerusalem
“Gratuitous redundancy makes prose difficult not just because readers have to duplicate the effort of figuring something out, but because they naturally assume that when a writer says two things she means two things, and fruitlessly search for the nonexistent second point.”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
“Shekiba was born at the turn of the twentieth century, in an Afghanistan eyed lasciviously by Russia and Britain. Each would take turns promising to protect the borders they had just invaded, like a pedophile who professes to love his victim.
The borders between Afghanistan and India were drawn and redrawn from time to time, as if only penciled in. People belonged to one country and then the other, nationalities changing as often as the direction of the wind. For Great Britain and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan was the playing field for their "Great Game," the power struggle to control Central Asia. But the game was slowly coming to an end, the Afghan people ferociously resisting outside control. Chests expanded with pride when Afghans talked about their resilience.
But parts of Afghanistan were taken—little by little until its borders shrank in like a wool sweater left in the rain. Areas to the north like Samarkand and Bukhara had been lost to the Russian Empire. Chunks of the south were chipped away and the western front was pushed in over the years.”
― Nadia Hashimi, quote from The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
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