How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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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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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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