There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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