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."
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"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."
"قدر لي أن أسير جنبًا إلى جنب مع أبطالي الغرباء، وأن أتأمل اتساع الحياة المتلاطم، أتأمله عبر الضحكات التي يراها الجميع، وعبر الدموع التي لا يراها ولا يعلم بها أحد."
Nikolai Gogol
"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."
"دعني أحذرك، إن بدأت تسعى وراء المشاهدات، فستجد نفسك بلا خبز ولا مشاهدات."
Nikolai Gogol
"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."
Nikolai Gogol
"I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity"
Nikolai Gogol
"Ah,steeds,steeds,what is 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
"But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface."
Nikolai Gogol
"But the future is unknown, and stands before a man like autumnal fogs rising from the swamps; birds fly foolishly up and down in it with flapping wings, never recognizing each other, the dove seeing not the vulture, nor the vulture the dove, and no one knowing how far he may be flying from destruction."
Nikolai Gogol
"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."
Nikolai Gogol
"Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die"
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
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