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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Nikolai Gogol

Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

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