Nikolai Gogol on word
Nikolai Gogol54 quotes“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.”
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol 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.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol
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