1857 – 1924 • Polish • Novelist
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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.
