Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOLA word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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