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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLA word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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