But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
NIKOLAI GOGOLit’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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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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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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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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