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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
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
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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