Twenty Paces Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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• Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
• England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
• On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
• There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
• This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than…
• But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased…
• The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
• It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
• Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded…
• The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
• Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
• The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie.…

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