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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

Nikolai Gogol

Towns, Authority, Destruction

"The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol. Act 1, Scene 1, 1836.

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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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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Nikolai Gogol

Want, Achieve, Contrary

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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

Nikolai Gogol

Laughing, Bitter

Nikolai Gogol (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated)”, p.126, Delphi Classics

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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Nikolai Gogol

Men, Thinking, Literature

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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

Nikolai Gogol

Passion, Men

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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

Nikolai Gogol

Character, Men, World

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What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

Nikolai Gogol

Passion, Age, Desire

Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Nikolai Gogol

Literature, Righteous, Courses

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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

Nikolai Gogol

Hero, Chairs, Courses

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

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it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

Nikolai Gogol

Art, Jobs, Faces

Letter to Zhukovsky on January 1848. "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, p. 49, 1986.

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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

Nikolai Gogol

Different, Matter, Puppy

"The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol. Act 1, Scene 1, 1836.

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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Nikolai Gogol

Journey, Years, Emotion

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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

Nikolai Gogol

Passion, Men, Sea

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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Nikolai Gogol

Men, Land, Ideas

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As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

Nikolai Gogol

Ideas, Long, Mind

"Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.

Nikolai Gogol

Passion, Sea, Literature

"Dead Souls".

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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

Nikolai Gogol

Heart, Preparation, Youth

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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Nikolai Gogol

Men, Land, Thank You God

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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

Nikolai Gogol

Song, Horse, Home

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Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

Nikolai Gogol

Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

Nikolai Gogol

Debris, Shows, Governors

Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts”, p.40, The Floating Press

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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Nikolai Gogol

Wise, Character, Men

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Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

Nikolai Gogol

Years, Cake, Sheep

Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Nikolai Gogol

Laughter, Hero, Journey

"Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 7, 1842.

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Born: March 31, 1809
Died: March 4, 1852
Occupation: Dramatist
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