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More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being ...

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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator,...

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It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it a...

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He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said...

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In Desert and Wilderness

They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hu...

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In Desert and Wilderness

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

In Desert and Wilderness

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a p...

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In Desert and Wilderness

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creature...

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He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

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...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into ...

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At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, ...

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Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpse...

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She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. T...

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In Desert and Wilderness

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be...

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In Desert and Wilderness

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of...

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If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

It seemed that out of every tear of a martyr new confessors were born, and that every groan on the a...

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And all at once he saw before him a precipice, as it were without bottom. He was a patrician, a mili...

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They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the h...

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The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty...

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As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which wa...

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Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after ...

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Henryk Sienkiewicz

Journalist

Born: 1846-05-05

Died: 1916-11-15

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Oszyk-Sienkiewicz (5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist, most famous for his novel Quo Vadis.More