Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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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.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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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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