More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
I am who I am and that's who I am
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
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.
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.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.