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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish

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