Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI am who I am and that’s who I am.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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 more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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