Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. Henryk Sienkiewicz More Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz More Quotes From Henryk Sienkiewicz The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible. Henryk Sienkiewicz effortunderstandingclass Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. Henryk Sienkiewicz anxietybearseasy 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz growingseamen 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz civilizationideasthinking 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz competitionhumanitystruggle 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz idlerslazywriting 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 independencelongreligion There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. Henryk Sienkiewicz instinctmoralenemy 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz faithfulgivingmen 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 achievementgeniusdoe 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz daydreamingmoodpolitical 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz laughterpainheart 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. Henryk Sienkiewicz donemightcharacter
