The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
NIKOLAI GOGOLHowever stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Countless 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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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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