"This was not the old Chichikov. This was……" — Nikolai Gogol
"This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity."
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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