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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Nikolai Gogol

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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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