There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOL
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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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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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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