Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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 GOGOLEverywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLit’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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLHow much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAs 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!
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere 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.
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 GOGOLKeep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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