They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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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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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.
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