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.
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 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 GOGOLIn 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLNothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLFor 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLit’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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLKeep not money, but keep good people’s company.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
NIKOLAI GOGOLDo we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
NIKOLAI GOGOLHow much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
NIKOLAI GOGOLA word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
NIKOLAI GOGOLGambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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