The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLHowever stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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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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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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.
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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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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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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