We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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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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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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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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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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