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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?

Nikolai Gogol

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible

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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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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