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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.

Nikolai Gogol

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Laughter Yourself
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking

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