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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLFor 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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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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