"I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured."

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Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

#World Quotes #Use Quotes #Romantic Poetry Quotes

“It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.”
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.”
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.”
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.”
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

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