Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
NIKOLAI GOGOLNothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are passions that it is not for man to choose.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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 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 GOGOLThere are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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 GOGOLThe 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
NIKOLAI GOGOLI am who I am and that’s who I am.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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