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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/i-am-fated-to-journey-hand-in-hand-with-my-strange-heroes-and-to/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

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## More by Nikolai Gogol

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/it-s-not-my-job-to-preach-a-sermon-art-is-anyhow-a-homily-my-job-is/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [“What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/what-a-strange-creature-man-is-he-does-not-believe-in-god-but-he-does/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/our-century-is-so-shallow-its-desires-scattered-so-widely-our/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/i-ask-everyone-in-russia-to-pray-for-me-beginning-with-the-bishops/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/go-along-go-along-quickly-and-set-all-you-have-on-the-table-for-us-we/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/like-all-of-us-sinners-general-betrishchev-was-endowed-with-many/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [“It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/it-seemed-that-both-had-lately-had-a-touch-of-that-pain-under-the/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/how-much-savage-coarseness-is-concealed-in-refined-cultivated-manners/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/russia-russia-everything-in-you-is-open-desolate-and-level-your-squat/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/we-have-the-marvelous-gift-of-making-everything-insignificant/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [“The fair-haired man was one of those people in whose character there is at first sight a certain obstinacy. Before you can open your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/the-fair-haired-man-was-one-of-those-people-in-whose-character-there/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [“Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/well-so-that-s-the-prosecutor-he-lived-and-lived-and-then-died-and/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/for-public-opinion-does-not-admit-that-lofty-rapturous-laughter-is/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/in-his-mind-nothing-could-be-more-delightful-than-to-live-in-solitude/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

> [It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-gogol/it-is-no-use-to-blame-the-looking-glass-if-your-face-is-awry/)

[Nikolai Gogol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-gogol/)

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