I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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