Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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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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 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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