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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Countless 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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself

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