Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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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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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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