We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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