Nikolai Gogol Short Quotes

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What is utterly absurd happens in the world.

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Dogs are clever fellows; they know all about politics...

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However, nothing turned out as Tchitchikoff had intended.

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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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They don't listen to me, they don't hear me, they don't see me.

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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

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Russia, are you not speeding along like a fiery and matchless troika?

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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...

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All the world knows that France sneezes when England takes a pinch of snuff.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.

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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

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However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!

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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

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The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself.

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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

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The year 2000: April 43rd.—To-day is a day of splendid triumph. Spain has a king; he has been found, and I am he.

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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

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People think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book......

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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

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Among a number of intelligent suggestions there was finally this one too, strange as it may seem, that Chichikov might be Napoleon in disguise...

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Russia! Russia! I see you now, from my wondrous, beautiful past I behold you! How wretched, dispersed, and uncomfortable everything is about you...

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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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And sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

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