"Amid the stillness of the night, in the……" — Henryk Sienkiewicz
"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."
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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20 Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz has 20 quotes on this site.
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Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
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England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
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On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
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There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
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This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better…
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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long…
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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
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It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
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Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
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The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged…
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In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror,…
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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