Nikolai Gogol Quote

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!


Dead Souls (1842) pt. 1, ch. 6 (translated by David Magarshak)


As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions!...

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions!...

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions!...

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions!...