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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
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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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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