"But there is nothing enduring in the world,……" — Nikolai Gogol
"But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface."
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Nikolai Gogol
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54 Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
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I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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