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
soil may lord
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
righteous courses profitable
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
russia goodness
Goodness, how sad is our Russia!
laughter differences public-opinion
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
passion sea literature
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
ideas long mind
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
matter different puppy
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
song horse home
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!
laughing bitter
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
views bread belief
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
people suffering poverty
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
savages manners refined
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...
people good-people company
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
horse home whirlwind
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?