“A time will come when under changed circumstances she will recover her beauty. I thought of it to-day and at once asked myself what would be our relations towards each other in the future, and whether it would make any change. I am certain it will not. I know already how it feels to live without her, and shall not do anything which might make her cast me off.”

—  Henryk Sienkiewicz, book Without Dogma

9 November
Without Dogma (1891)

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