Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOL
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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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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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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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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