Bolesław Prus: Cytaty po angielsku

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“A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.”

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The Doll

“For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.”

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The Doll (1887–1889)

“In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!… I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman… He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess… And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all…”

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The Doll

“Nature has done well and wisely, in not permitting a man to live forever and in bringing into the world ever new generations. An old person is a used-up machine [… He] has too many dogmas to […] easily […] believe in a new truth […]; too many sympathies and antipathies […] for him to come to love something unfamiliar; […] too many habits to be able to settle on new ways. Let us add suspiciousness — the fruit of bitter experiences; a pessimism inseparable from all manner of disappointments; and finally, a general decline of powers from exhaustion […].”

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Bolesław Prus

"Oda do młodości" ["Ode to Youth"], 1905

“Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.”

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The Doll

“Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh has a stroke...”

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The Doll

“There are neither graves nor death in Nature; there are various forms of existence, some of which enable us to be chemists, others only chemical substances.”

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The Doll

“And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles.”

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The Doll