The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLLet me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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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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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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 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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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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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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