Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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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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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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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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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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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