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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

Nikolai Gogol

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 shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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
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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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
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
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness

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