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!
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat 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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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