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Henryk Sienkiewicz [1846-1916] Polish

Rank: 103
Novelist, Journalist

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was 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.

Independence

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It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.		101
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.		102
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.		103
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.		104
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.		105
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.		106
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.		107
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.	Independence	108
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.		109

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