But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
NIKOLAI GOGOLTwo turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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