Nikolai Gogol Quotes

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• Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Mirrors, Faces, Blame

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• I am who I am and that's who I am

  Nikolai Gogol

  Life, Who I Am, I Am Who I Am

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

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  Stupid, World, Imagine

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

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  Book, Solitude, Enjoy

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.26, Vintage

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

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  Sad, Looks, Stories

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

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  Path, Saws, Straight Path

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.378, Vintage

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

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  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage

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

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Accord

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• We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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  Marvelous, Insignificant

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• 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.

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  Fire, Errors, Laughing

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage

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

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  People, Good People, Company

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.26, Vintage

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

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  Perfect, Goes On, World

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.323, Vintage

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

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  Cutting, Written

  Nikolai Gogol (1936). “Dead Souls”

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• 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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  Men, Clothes, People

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

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  Past, Joy, Sorrow

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

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  Views, Bread, Belief

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• They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

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  Listen To Me

  Nikolai Gogol (1981). “Diary of a Madman: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

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  Men, Gambling, Cards

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Glasses, Use, Literature

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

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

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  Soul, Literature, Body

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• 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.

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  Fall, Circles, Water

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• 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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  Dream, Might, Waking

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.262, Vintage

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• How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

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  Savages, Manners, Refined

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.397, Vintage

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• There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

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  People, World, Spots

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 5, 1842.

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• A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

  Nikolai Gogol

  People, Suffering, Poverty

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