Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are passions that it is not for man to choose.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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