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.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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.
I am who I am and that's who I am
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.