Quotes by Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

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I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manife — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitation: all his feelings — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, become somehow extraor — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin to ruin it. But you' — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. This has also been wri — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
This was no longer art: it even destroyed the harmony of the portrait itself. They were alive, they were human eyes! It — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does not pierce you with — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters–– — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
...all this convinced him that he had come to one of those revolting havens where pathetic depravity makes its abode, bo — Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol