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More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.