There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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