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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

Nikolai Gogol

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
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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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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