Quotes from book
The Doll

Name: The Doll
Author: Bolesław Prus

Bolesław PrusOriginal title Lalka (Polish, 1887)

The Doll is the second of four acclaimed novels by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus . It was composed for periodical serialization in 1887-89 and appeared in book form in 1890.

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

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

The Doll

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

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

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…”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

The Doll

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

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

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...”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

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.”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

The Doll

“Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

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.”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

The Doll

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