There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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