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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.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
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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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town

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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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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