The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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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 people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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