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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLTwo 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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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 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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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