You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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