Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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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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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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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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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