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“A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll

“Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.”

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Bolesław Prus книга Pharaoh

Pharaoh (1894–1895)

“For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll (1887–1889)

“In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!… I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman… He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess… And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all…”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll

“Nature has done well and wisely, in not permitting a man to live forever and in bringing into the world ever new generations. An old person is a used-up machine [… He] has too many dogmas to […] easily […] believe in a new truth […]; too many sympathies and antipathies […] for him to come to love something unfamiliar; […] too many habits to be able to settle on new ways. Let us add suspiciousness — the fruit of bitter experiences; a pessimism inseparable from all manner of disappointments; and finally, a general decline of powers from exhaustion […].”

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Bolesław Prus

"Oda do młodości" ["Ode to Youth"], 1905

“Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll

“Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh has a stroke...”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll

“There are neither graves nor death in Nature; there are various forms of existence, some of which enable us to be chemists, others only chemical substances.”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll

“Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll

“And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles.”

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Bolesław Prus книга The Doll

The Doll

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Генрик Сенкевич33

польский писатель None

Фредерик Шопен13

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Джозеф Конрад19

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Жюль Ренар69

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Бьёрнстьерне Бьёрнсон1

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Оноре де Бальзак139

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Иван Александрович Гончаров10

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Альфонс Карр11

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Роберт Льюис Стивенсон75

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Карл Людвиг Бёрне52

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Подобные авторы

Генрик Сенкевич33

польский писатель None

Фредерик Шопен13

польский композитор и пианист-виртуоз, педагог None

Джозеф Конрад19

английский писатель польского происхождения None

Жюль Ренар69

французский писатель None

Бьёрнстьерне Бьёрнсон1

норвежский писатель None