Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOLEverything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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