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• it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Art, Jobs, Faces

  Letter to Zhukovsky on January 1848. "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, p. 49, 1986.

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• What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Age, Desire

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Want, Achieve, Contrary

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• Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Men, Sea

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• I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughing, Bitter

  Nikolai Gogol (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated)”, p.126, Delphi Classics

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• There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Character, Men, World

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• There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Men

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• A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

  Nikolai Gogol

  People, Suffering, Poverty

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• What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

  Nikolai Gogol (2017). “The Inspector-General (illustrated)”, p.109, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Literature, Righteous, Courses

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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.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Different, Matter, Puppy

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol. Act 1, Scene 1, 1836.

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Hero, Chairs, Courses

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Debris, Shows, Governors

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Heart, Preparation, Youth

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Towns, Authority, Destruction

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol. Act 1, Scene 1, 1836.

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• 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!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Journey, Years, Emotion

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• The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Land, Ideas

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• We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Land, Thank You God

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• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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• Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Song, Horse, Home

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• As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Sea, Literature

  "Dead Souls".

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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.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wise, Character, Men

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• Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

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  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Happens

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.128, Vintage

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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Years, Cake, Sheep

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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