“It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
If you have not first pondered the entire situation of the man whom you wish to help, and if you have not… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“The long-forgotten, living eyes of the portrait began to torment him, and then his madness became dreadful. All the people who surrounded… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, in whatever realm of life, whether among its callous, coarsely impoverished and messily moldering lower ranks, or among its monotonously gelid… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Wherever in life it may be, whether amongst its tough, coarsely poor, and untidily moldering mean ranks, or its monotonously cold and… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“His life had already touched upon the age when everything that breathes of impulse shrinks in a man, when a powerful bow… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
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.… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
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… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“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… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“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… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
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