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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLit’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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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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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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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