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Fifteen years of yes's had beaten Mrs. Gilbert. Fifteen further years of that incessant unaffirmative affirmative, accompanied by the perpetual flicking of ash-mushrooms from thirty-two thousand cigars, had broken her. To this husband of
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“So,” went on Chichikov, “if no obstacle stands in the way, we might as well proceed to the completion of the purchase.” “What? Of the purchase of the dead souls?” “Of the ‘dead’ souls? Oh dear no! Let us write them down as LIVING ones, seeing that that is how they figure in the census returns.”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
“but what his family most resented, he reflected, was his wish for privacy. To dine alone, or to sit alone after dinner, was flat rebellion, to be fought with every weapon of underhand stealth or of open appeal.”
― Night and Day
― Night and Day
“वे अब समझते थे—जगत् तो मिथ्या है ही, इसके जितने कर्म हैं, वे भी माया हैं। प्रमाता जीव भी प्रकृति है, क्योंकि वह भी अपरा प्रकृति है। जब विश्व मात्र प्राकृत है, तब इसमें अलौकिक अध्यात्म कहाँ। यही खेल यदि जगत् बनाने वाले का है, तो वह मुझे खेलना चाहिए।”
― कंकाल
― कंकाल
“सोमदेव ने धीरे से कहा—वेश्या है, सरकार। मिरजा ने कहा—दरिद्र हैं। स”
― कंकाल
― कंकाल
“He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not impress her; though he would have preferred to impress her. He”
― Night and Day
― Night and Day
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