Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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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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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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