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. Wikipedia
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Quo vadis?
Henryk SienkiewiczFrasi Henryk Sienkiewicz
„Io credo che ogni uomo abbia due patrie; l’una è la sua personale, più vicina, e l’altra è l’Italia.“
Origine: Citato in Roberta Scorranese, Patrimonio collettivo, Corriere della Sera, 25 settembre 2017, p. 40.
„La stupidità non è per nulla diversa dall'intelligenza, non ne differisce assolutamente.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Quo vadis?
1973, p. 7
Quo vadis?
„Ovunque l'uomo porti il suo lavoro, vi lascia anche qualche cosa del suo cuore.“
da La famiglia Polaniecki
„La virtù è una musica e la vita del saggio un'armonia.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Quo vadis?
Quo vadis?
„Ciascuno ha il diritto di reclamare ciò che gli è dovuto.“
da La famiglia Polaniecki
„Il mondo intero si affida all'inganno. E d'altronde, la vita stessa non è forse illusione?“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Quo vadis?
1973, p. 8
Quo vadis?
„Per quanto la vita possa essere ingrata, la gioventù è un dono che non verrà mai sottratto.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Quo vadis?
1973, p. 18
Quo vadis?
„Il mondo è retto da Dio, non da Nerone.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Quo vadis?
1973, p. 32
Quo vadis?
„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 perché 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, libro Quo vadis?
1915, p. 124
Quo vadis?
„She never can grow ugly, changed, or old to me. I accept everything, agree to everything, and worship her as she is.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Without Dogma
11 November
Without Dogma (1891)
Contesto: 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.
„I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Without Dogma
Rome, 5 December
Without Dogma (1891)
Contesto: 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.
„The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Quo vadis?
Letter of Petronius to Nero, Ch. 73
Quo Vadis (1895)
Contesto: Rome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.
„My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Without Dogma
"Rome, 9 January"
Without Dogma (1891)
Contesto: 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.
„The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Without Dogma
10 November
Without Dogma (1891)
Contesto: 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.
„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, libro Without Dogma
11 November
Without Dogma (1891)
Contesto: 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.
„Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Quo vadis?
Petronius, as depicted in the novel, speaking to Marcus Vinicius,<!-- entirely fictional character, NOT the historical figure. --> in Ch. 1
Quo Vadis (1895)
Contesto: Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right. My jests do not prevent me from thinking at times that in truth there is only one deity, eternal, creative, all-powerful, Venus Genetrix. She brings souls together; she unites bodies and things. Eros called the world out of chaos. Whether he did well is another question; but, since he did so, we should recognize his might, though we are free not to bless it.
„It is not merely a question of sorrow after the death of a beloved being, but of the reproaches she will apply to herself, thinking that if she had loved him more he might have clung more to his life.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Without Dogma
13 November
Without Dogma (1891)
Contesto: It is not merely a question of sorrow after the death of a beloved being, but of the reproaches she will apply to herself, thinking that if she had loved him more he might have clung more to his life. Empty, trivial, and unjust reproaches, for she did everything that force of will could command, — she spurned my love and remained pure and faithful to him. But one must know that soul full of scruples as I know it, to gauge the depth of misery into which the news would plunge her, and how she would suspect herself, — asking whether his death did not correspond to some deeply hidden desire on her part for freedom and happiness; whether it did not gratify those wishes she had scarcely dared to form.
„If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, libro Without Dogma
4 August
Without Dogma (1891)
Contesto: If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman. There is something in my relations to Aniela of which I never heard or read; there is no getting out of it, no end. A solution, whether it be a calamity or the fulfilment of desire, is something, but this is only an enchanted circle. If she remain immovable and I do not cease loving her, it will be an everlasting torment, and nothing else. And I have the despairing conviction that neither of us will give way.
