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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLYou can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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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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