Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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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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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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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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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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