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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Nikolai Gogol

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
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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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
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
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power

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