I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAs 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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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