Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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