The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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