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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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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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