I am who I am and that’s who I am.
NIKOLAI GOGOLYou can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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