But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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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 certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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In 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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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