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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

Nikolai Gogol

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
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

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