Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. — Nikolai Gogol Accord 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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. — Nikolai Gogol Cutting Copy Share Image
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? — Nikolai Gogol Home Copy Share Image
“...a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner...” — Nikolai Gogol Cockroaches Copy Share Image
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. — Nikolai Gogol Activity Copy Share Image
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? — Nikolai Gogol Alexander Copy Share Image
The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things… — Nikolai Gogol Believed 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 Argument 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
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous… — Nikolai Gogol Educated Copy Share Image
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything… — Nikolai Gogol Achieve Copy Share Image
“But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even... and after all, where… — Nikolai Gogol Admit Copy Share Image
“April 43rd 2000 Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last.… — Nikolai Gogol Amusing Copy Share Image
“Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on… — Nikolai Gogol Photography Copy Share Image
It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble,… — Nikolai Gogol Alive Copy Share Image
“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the… — Nikolai Gogol Art 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 Life 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 Disappeared Copy Share Image
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him… — Nikolai Gogol Clothes Copy Share Image
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long… — Nikolai Gogol Amusing 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 Life 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
“Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful reality, approaches characters that manifest the lofty… — Nikolai Gogol Every moment Copy Share Image
“What grief is not taken away by time? What passion will survive an unequal battle with it? I knew a man in… — Nikolai Gogol Anguish 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 Aging Copy Share Image
“How many crooked, out-of-the-way, narrow, impassable, and devious paths has humanity chosen in the attempt to attain eternal truth, while before it… — Nikolai Gogol Darkness 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 Joy 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 Joy Copy Share Image
“The parental eye shed no tears when the time for leave-taking came; a half-rouble in copper coins was given to the boy… — Nikolai Gogol Psychology 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
