“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”
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“My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity.”
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, book Without Dogma
"Rome, 9 January"
Without Dogma (1891)
Context: My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.
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