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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.

Nikolai Gogol

You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

God Man Respect Thankful Worth
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Laughter Yourself
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Philosophy Resemble Truth
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Culture Manner Refine Savage
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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 GOGOL

Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Pause Perfection World
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Bitter Laughter Myself

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