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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.

Nikolai Gogol

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
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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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power

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