Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless 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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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