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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
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
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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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
Do 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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness

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