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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

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Going home must be like going to render an account.

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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 3rd, 1857

Died: August 3rd, 1924

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