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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

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion

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