I am who I am and that’s who I am.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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 is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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