More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
I am who I am and that's who I am
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.