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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.

Nikolai Gogol

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
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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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself

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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