For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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There 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.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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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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