"The sky is one whole, the water another;……" — Henryk Sienkiewicz
"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness."
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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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Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay…
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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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More Infinities Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being…
— Rudy Rucker
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Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself…
— Paul Gauguin
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls…
— John Donne
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Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness;…
— Galileo Galilei
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There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments,…
— Frederick Lenz
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In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.
— Frederick Lenz
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There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
— Jules de Goncourt
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name…
— Jerry Saltz
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush…
— Gustave Flaubert
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