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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.

Nikolai Gogol

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
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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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
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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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth

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