But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
NIKOLAI GOGOLLet me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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 public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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