How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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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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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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 are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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 longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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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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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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