Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
NIKOLAI GOGOLEverywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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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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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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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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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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What 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?
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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