There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe 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.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Countless 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.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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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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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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