More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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.