Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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