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

Nikolai Gogol

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
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
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible

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