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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

Nikolai Gogol

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
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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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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

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