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He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
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He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
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That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitation: all his feelings and all his being were shaken to their depths, and he came to know that terrible torment which, by way of a striking exception, sometimes occurs in nature, when a weak talent strains to show itself on too grand a scale and fails; that torment which gives birth to great things in a youth, but, in passing beyond the border of dream, turns into a fruitless yearning; that dreadful torment which makes a man capable of terrible evildoing.

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Nikolai Gogol

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol