Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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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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They’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.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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