I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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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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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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