The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
NIKOLAI GOGOL
NIKOLAI GOGOL
Nikolai Gogol on sadness
Nikolai Gogol54 quotes“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
Nikolai GogolNikolai 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 GogolNikolai Gogol Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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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