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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right.
— Petronius, as depicted in the novel, speaking to Marcus Vinicius, in Ch. 1
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)
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Lived 1846–1916, aged 70
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He wrote Quo Vadis, the 1895 novel about Nero's Rome that became an international sensation and made a Polish writer into one of the most widely translated novelists of his era—enough to earn him the 1905 Nobel Prize.
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Born into an impoverished noble family in Russian-ruled Poland in 1846, Sienkiewicz started publishing journalism and fiction in the late 1860s. A trip to the United States in the late 1870s produced travel essays that made him popular at home, and in the 1880s he began serializing novels that turned him into one of Poland's most-read writers. His "Trilogy"—With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Sir Michael—chronicles the 17th-century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and remains canonical in Poland. But it was Quo Vadis, his 1895–96 epic set in Nero's Rome, that crossed borders: translated widely,…
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
— Petronius, in Ch. 2
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Riches, glory, power are mere smoke, vanity!
— Marcus Vinicius to Lygia, in Ch. 2
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Not Nero, but God, rules the world.
— Lygia to Marcus Vinicius, in Ch. 2
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
— Petronius to Marcus Vinicius, in Ch. 3
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