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 GOGOLThere 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.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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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.
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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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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