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 GOGOLWhatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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