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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless 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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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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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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