Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogolwas a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Russian and Ukrainian scholars debate whether or not Gogol was of their respective ethnicities...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1809
CityVelyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine
CountryRussian Federation
laughter differences public-opinion
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
russia goodness
Goodness, how sad is our Russia!
want achieve contrary
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.
righteous courses profitable
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
soil may lord
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
profound brain slumber
...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.
elderly young gogol
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
listen-to-me
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
laughter mean different
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
debris shows governors
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
reading men voice
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
matter different puppy
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
barely draws force midst mysterious plains squat towns
Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
disdain examining man
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.