Nikolai Gogol Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Hay ocasiones en las que una mujer, por muy débil e impotente de carácter que sea en comparación con un hombre, se vuelve de repente no sólo más dura que cualquier hombre, sino incluso más dura que cualquier cosa y todo en el mundo.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Carácter, Hombres, Mundo

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Passion, Men

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• Un tiempo de hambruna y pobreza vendrá y el pueblo en su conjunto, así como cada individuo en él sufrirá.

  Nikolai Gogol

  People, Suffering, Poverty

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Reírse, reírse de uno mismo

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

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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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• Les digo a todos muy claramente que acepto sobornos, pero ¿qué tipo de sobornos? Pues, cachorros de galgo. Ese es un asunto totalmente diferente.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Different, Matter, Puppy

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

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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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• Cuantos más restos haya, más mostrará la actividad del gobernador.

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Debemos dar gracias a Dios por ello. Sí, el hombre que cultiva la tierra es más digno de respeto que nadie.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Land, Thank You God

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• Como es tan extrañamente ordenado en este mundo, lo que es divertido se convertirá en sombrío, si te quedas demasiado tiempo ante ello, y entonces Dios sabe qué ideas no pueden desviarse en la mente... ¿Por qué incluso en los momentos de alegría irreflexiva y despreocupada nos invade un estado de ánimo diferente y extraño?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

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

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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

  Sabio, Carácter, Hombres

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• Como todos nosotros, pecadores, el general Betrishchev estaba dotado de muchas virtudes y muchos defectos. Tanto las unas como los otros estaban esparcidos por él en una especie de pintoresco desorden. Abnegación, magnanimidad en los momentos decisivos, valor, inteligencia... y con todo ello, una generosa mezcla de amor propio, ambición, vanidad, pequeñas cosquillas personales, y un buen número de esas cosas de las que un hombre sencillamente no puede prescindir.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ambición, Sacrificio, Hombres

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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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