How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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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 shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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