Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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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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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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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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