I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe 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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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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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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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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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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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