As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
NIKOLAI GOGOLAs you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
NIKOLAI GOGOLEverything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOLit’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 GOGOLGambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI shall laugh my bitter laugh.
NIKOLAI GOGOLFor 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 GOGOLI saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
NIKOLAI GOGOLA time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
NIKOLAI GOGOLLet me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOLEverywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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