Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIn 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 saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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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 more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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