A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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