What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impu…

Nikolai Gogol
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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 (1985). The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, p.20, University of Chicago Press
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