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

Nikolai Gogol

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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
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
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul

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