Frasi di Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Data di nascita: 5. Maggio 1846
Data di morte: 15. Novembre 1916
Altri nomi:Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz è stato uno scrittore e giornalista polacco. È l'autore del celebre romanzo Quo vadis?, per il quale ha ricevuto nel 1905 il Premio Nobel per la letteratura.
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„Ovunque l'uomo porti il suo lavoro, vi lascia anche qualche cosa del suo cuore.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
da La famiglia Polaniecki
„Ciascuno ha il diritto di reclamare ciò che gli è dovuto.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
da La famiglia Polaniecki
„In quanto ai miei servi, una cosa attrasse la mia attenzione. Che il perdono non solo non li rese insolenti e indisciplinati, ma nessuna paura di castigo li ha mai resi così zelanti e premurosi come la gratitudine. Non solo essi fanno il loro dovere, ma pare che rivaleggino l'un l'altro a indovinare i miei desiderî. Ti dico questo perchè il giorno prima di lasciare i cristiani, io dissi a Paolo che la società colla religione di Cristo, si sarebbe sfasciata come una botte senza cerchi; Paolo mi rispose che «l'amore è un cerchio più forte della paura». E ora vedo che in certi casi la sua opinione può essere giusta.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
1915, p. 124
„I love her now beyond all words; she sees it, — she reads it in my eyes, and in my whole manner towards her.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: I love her now beyond all words; she sees it, — she reads it in my eyes, and in my whole manner towards her. When I succeed in cheering her up, or call forth her smiles, I am beside myself with delight. There is at present in my love something of the attachment of the faithful servant who loves his mistress. I often feel as if I ought to humble myself before her, as if my proper place were at her feet. She never can grow ugly, changed, or old to me. I accept everything, agree to everything, and worship her as she is.
11 November
„I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. I am the cause of your death, for if I had been a different man, if I had not been wanting in all principles, all foundations of life, there would not have come upon you the shocks that killed you.
Rome, 5 December
„My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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.
"Rome, 9 January"
„The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: Formerly character proved a strong curb for passions; in the present there is not much strength in character, and it grows less and less because of the prevailing scepticism, which is a decomposing element. It is like a bacillus breeding in the human soul; it destroys the resistant power against the physiological craving of the nerves, of nerves diseased. The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.
10 November
„Our world knew, before thou wert born, that when the last cup was drained, it was time to go, — time to rest, — and it knows yet how to do that with calmness. Plato declares that virtue is music, that the life of a sage is harmony. If that be true, I shall die as I have lived, — virtuously.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: No God has promised me immortality; hence no surprise meets me. At the same time thou art mistaken, Vinicius, in asserting that only thy God teaches man to die calmly. No. Our world knew, before thou wert born, that when the last cup was drained, it was time to go, — time to rest, — and it knows yet how to do that with calmness. Plato declares that virtue is music, that the life of a sage is harmony. If that be true, I shall die as I have lived, — virtuously.
Petronius, Ch. 72
