There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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