We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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