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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.

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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
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
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
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

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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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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