I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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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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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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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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