We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI am who I am and that’s who I am.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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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 more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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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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