There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
NIKOLAI GOGOL
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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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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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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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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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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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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