We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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