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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

~Nikolai Gogol

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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

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I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.

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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 influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable.

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Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips.

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Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.

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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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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Writer

Born: March 31st, 1809

Died: March 4th, 1852

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