I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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