They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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