Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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