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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

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
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

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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