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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
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
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

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