Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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