Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI 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.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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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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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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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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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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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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