We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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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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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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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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