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it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

Nikolai Gogol

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word

it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

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it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

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