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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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
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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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain

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