It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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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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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.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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