Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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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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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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