The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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 ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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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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