It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a 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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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