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What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

Nikolai Gogol

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Nikolai Gogol
Age: 43 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 1
Died: 1852
Died: January 1
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