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?
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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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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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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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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