The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLHowever stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
NIKOLAI GOGOLMan 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat 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?
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLLet me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are passions that it is not for man to choose.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlways think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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