"It is well-known that there are many faces……" — Nikolai Gogol
"It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!"
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Nikolai Gogol
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54 Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as…
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he…
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than…
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more…
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good…
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful…
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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