Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
NIKOLAI GOGOLBut 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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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 shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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