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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.

Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself

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