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he was too exhausted by his daily work advice/not-selling-out

But from that time a happy change took place in his life. He expected his name to be covered in infamy, but it turned out quite the contrary. The lady who had commissioned the portrait went into raptures about this extraordinary artist, and our Chertkov’s studio filled with visitors wishing to doub…

—p.84 The Nose and Other Stories The Portrait (1835 version) (65) by Nikolai Gogol
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like a madman he ran out of the hall advice/not-selling-out

Pure, unsullied, beautiful as a bride, the artist’s work stood before him. And if only the slightest desire to shine, if only a perhaps excusable vanity, if only a thought of showing itself off to the mob had been evident there—no, not a one! It rose up humbly. It was simple, innocent, and divine, …

—p.87 The Portrait (1835 version) (65) by Nikolai Gogol
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like a madman he ran out of the hall advice/not-selling-out

Pure, unsullied, beautiful as a bride, the artist’s work stood before him. And if only the slightest desire to shine, if only a perhaps excusable vanity, if only a thought of showing itself off to the mob had been evident there—no, not a one! It rose up humbly. It was simple, innocent, and divine, …

—p.87 The Portrait (1835 version) (65) by Nikolai Gogol
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deep in the system they once loathed advice/not-selling-out

There are others whom the waves of thought and art in the forties, when they retreated, left stranded. Brando, like Welles neurotically overweight, and by some mysterious choice out of things, respecting no one and least of all his own profession and his incomparable gifts, hides on a dirt hill ove…

—p.135 Elia Kazan: A Life by Elia Kazan
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