Quotes | Nikolai Gogol

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

― Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol Stupid World Imagine

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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Nikolai Gogol Book Solitude Enjoy

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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Nikolai Gogol Sad Looks Stories

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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Nikolai Gogol Mirrors Faces Blame

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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Nikolai Gogol Stupid Intelligent Men

I am who I am and that's who I am

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Nikolai Gogol Life Who

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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Nikolai Gogol Path Saws

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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Nikolai Gogol Beautiful Thinking Accord

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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Nikolai Gogol Marvelous Insignificant

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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Nikolai Gogol Cutting Written

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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Nikolai Gogol People 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.

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Nikolai Gogol Men Clothes People

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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Nikolai Gogol Perfect World

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

― Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol Fire Errors Laughing

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

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Nikolai Gogol Views Bread Belief

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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Nikolai Gogol Past Joy Sorrow

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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Nikolai Gogol Glasses Use Literature

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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Nikolai Gogol Soul Literature Body

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.

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Nikolai Gogol Dream Might Waking

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.

― Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol Fall Circles Water