"If the infinity of the sea may call……" — Henryk Sienkiewicz

"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

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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…
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long…
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…
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…

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"If the infinity of the sea may call……" — Henryk Sienkiewicz

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