Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewiczwas a Polish journalist, novelist and the Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 May 1846
CountryPoland
merit results depends
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
laughter pain heart
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.
fear rain darkness
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
sky water whole
The sky is one whole, the water another
weed fields exhausted
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
laughter laughing people
Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
weather two rosary
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
fear window-panes people
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
spring thinking source
But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.
reflection views europe
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.
children writing novelists
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
england eternal
England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
church skepticism my-own
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
flower compassion sea
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.