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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Nikolai Gogol

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
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
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake

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