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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
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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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
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
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing

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