...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...

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But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even... and after all, where aren't there incongruities?

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!

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Nevsky Avenue

"Here you come across moustaches so wonderful that neither pen nor brush can do justice to them, moustaches to which the best years of a lifetime have been devoted-the object of long hours of vigil by day and by night; moustaches upon which all the perfumes of Arabia have been lavished, the most exquisite scents and essences, and which have been anointed with the rarest and most precious pomades; moustaches which are wrapped up for the night in the most delicate vellum; moustaches for which their possessors show a most touching affection and which are the envy of all those who behold them.

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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

Nikolai Gogol

Tag: death loneliness crying sad doves birds dead-souls whisper

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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.

Nikolai Gogol

Tag: life laughter tears heroes gogol nikolai

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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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Tag: humor sadness

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...the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses.

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Chodzić bez nosa, przyzna pan, że mi to nie wypada(...)Przecież pan jesteś — moim własnym nosem! Nos spojrzał na majora i brwi jego nachmurzyły się nieco. — Myli się pan, łaskawy panie: jestem sam przez się. Poza tym, wszelka bliższa komitywa między nami jest niemożliwa. Sądząc według guzików pańskiego munduru jest pan urzędnikiem senatu względnie ministerstwa sprawiedliwości, natomiast ja zajmuję stanowisko w oświacie publicznej

(Мне ходить без носа, согласитесь, это
неприлично(...)Ведь вы мой собственный
нос! Нос посмотрел на майора, и брови его несколько нахмурились.
- Вы ошибаетесь, милостивый государь. Я сам по себе. Притом между нами
не может быть никаких тесных отношений. Судя по пуговицам вашего вицмундира,
вы должны служить по другому ведомству)

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