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
attack believe dear devour earthly fair fortune people putting refuse sake spiritual
Believe me, my dear fellow, that so long as people refuse to give up everything for the sake of which they attack and devour each other on earth, that so long as they refuse to think of putting their spiritual fortune in order, there will be no fair distribution of earthly fortunes, either.
everywhere happened life man meet russian-writer sure unlike
Everywhere a man will be sure to meet at least once in his life something that is unlike anything he had happened to see before.
mind
Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.
absurd happens utterly
What is utterly absurd happens in the world
sad looks stories
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
soul may body
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
dream might waking
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.
soul might wreckage
This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.
glasses use literature
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
laughing laugh-at-yourself
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
saws path straight-path
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
marvelous insignificant
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
laughter hero journey
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
beautiful thinking accord
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.