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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Nikolai Gogol

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
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
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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