Why are you being so stingy?", Sobakevich demanded. "It's cheap at the price. A rogue would cheat you, sell you some worthless rubbish instead of souls, but mine are as juicy as ripe nuts, all picked—they are all either craftsmen or sturdy peasants. Dead Souls
Only loss teaches us about the value of things. Essays and Aphorisms
To follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things. To the Lighthouse
We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn. Fragment
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