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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

Nikolai Gogol

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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

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