What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are passions that it is not for man to choose.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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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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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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