The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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