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?
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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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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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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