I am who I am and that’s who I am.
NIKOLAI GOGOLDo 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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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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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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Countless 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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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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