What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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