Nikolai Gogol Quotations

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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

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.

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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.

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

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

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

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

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