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

Nikolai Gogol

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

Pause Perfection World
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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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
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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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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

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