It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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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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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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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.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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