The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLLet me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlways think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOLFor public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey’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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAs 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!
NIKOLAI GOGOLNothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
NIKOLAI GOGOL