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
stupid men intelligent
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
book solitude enjoy
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ...
stupid world imagine
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
people world spots
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
life who-i-am i-am-who-i-am
I am who I am and that's who I am
heart preparation youth
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.
fire errors laughing
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
men clothes people
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
cutting written
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
sad looks stories
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
hero chairs courses
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
art jobs faces
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.
men sea desire
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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.