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 Argument 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… — Nikolai Gogol Believe in god 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… — Nikolai Gogol Insignificant 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 Believe 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… — Nikolai Gogol Bubbles 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… — Nikolai Gogol Ambition 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 Life Copy Share Image
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol Manners 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… — Nikolai Gogol Everything Copy Share Image
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant. — Nikolai Gogol Insignificant 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… — Nikolai Gogol Another man 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… — Nikolai Gogol Marriage Copy Share Image
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall… — Nikolai Gogol Antics Copy Share Image
“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read… — Nikolai Gogol Books Copy Share Image
“But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be… — Nikolai Gogol Architect Copy Share Image
“And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was… — Nikolai Gogol Existence Copy Share Image
“You are on the proper road for Manilovka, but ZAmanilovka - well, there is no such place. The house you mean is… — Nikolai Gogol Home Copy Share Image
“All this has for me an indescribable charm, perhaps because I no longer see it, and because anything from which we are… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself. — Nikolai Gogol Laugh at yourself Copy Share Image
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter. — Nikolai Gogol Path Copy Share Image
“In one of our government departments... but perhaps I had better not say exactly which one. For no one's more touchy than… — Nikolai Gogol Politics Copy Share Image
“Manilov was pleased by these final words, but he still couldn't make sense of the deal itself, and for want of an… — Nikolai Gogol Final words Copy Share Image
