Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
NIKOLAI GOGOLHowever stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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 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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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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 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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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