Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. - Nikolai Gogol
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. - Nikolai Gogol
We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck. - Nikolai Gogol
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. - Nikolai Gogol
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. - Nikolai Gogol
I am who I am and that's who I am - Nikolai Gogol
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die - Nikolai Gogol
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. - Nikolai Gogol
Îl zăpăcise pur și simplu mulțimea aceea nespus de pestriță, de parcă diavolul fărâmase lumea bucăți și le adunase apoi la loc, fără niciun sens, fără niciun rost. - Nikolai Gogol
There are passions that it is not for man to choose. - Nikolai Gogol
A struggle with infuriated foes is always bearable, but God preserve us from the terrible battle with one's friends. Everything that is in us gets broken by it. - Nikolai Gogol