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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLTwo turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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it’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.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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