But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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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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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Man 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.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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