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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Nikolai Gogol

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Laughter Yourself
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
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself

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