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
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.
absurd happens utterly
What is utterly absurd happens in the world
marvelous insignificant
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
savages manners refined
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...
russia goodness
Goodness, how sad is our Russia!
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.
debris shows governors
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
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.