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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

Nikolai Gogol

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
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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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
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
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power

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