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Nikolai Gogol Biography

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (/ˈɡoʊɡəl, -ɡɔːl/; Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, tr. Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit. Mykola Vasylovych Hohol; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin.

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In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"

Completely, Full, Goodness, Pushkin, Reading, Russia

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Blame, Face, Glasses, Literature, Use

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Body, Depends, Literature, Say, Soul

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Funny, Longer, Looks, Sad, Stories, Story

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

Imagine, Stupid, Whole, World

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

Everything, Happens, Man, Men, Resembles, Truth

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

Ambition, Endowed, Men, Moments, Sacrifice, Vanity

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

Bitter, Laugh, Laughing

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Mirrors, Faces, Blame, Face, Mirror

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

Became, Dream, Might, Say, Waking, Watched

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

Aptly, Axe, Cut, Cutting, Uttered, Written

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

Different, Greyhound, Matter, Puppy, Tell

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Goes On, Nonsense, Perfect, World

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

Cards, Equal, Gambling, Leveller, Men

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

Chichikov, Inner, Might, Soul, Workers, Wreckage

. . . and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Activity, Brain, Folk, Mosquitoes, Profound

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Elderly, Gogol, Though, Young

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

Passion, Men, Choose, Man, Passions

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

Book, Enjoy, Live, Nature, Solitude

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.

Circles, Fall, Merges, Pebble, Usual, Water

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