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.
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.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Countless 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.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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