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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.

Nikolai Gogol

I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public

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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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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