It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
