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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLEverywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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