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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Nikolai Gogol

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
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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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
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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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World

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