Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOLA word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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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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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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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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