Bolesław Prus quotes
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“Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.”
-- BolesÅ‚aw PrusSource : "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.
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“Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.”
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“Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.”
-- BolesÅ‚aw PrusSource : "Pharaoh". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1897.
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“For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.”
-- BolesÅ‚aw PrusSource : "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1890.
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“A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.”
-- BolesÅ‚aw PrusSource : "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1890.
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“Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.”
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“Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.”
-- Bolesław PrusSource : "The Most General Life Ideals". Book by Boleslaw Prus, 2nd edition, 1905.
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“Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.”
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“Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.”
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“He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.”
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“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”
Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Terracotta Dog”, p.181, Pan Macmillan
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“Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.”
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