“ Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow 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 an… 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
“ Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. Nikolai Gogol
“ Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. Nikolai Gogol
“ Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. Nikolai Gogol
“ April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash. Nikolai Gogol
“ This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense. Sometimes things happen which you would hardly think possible. Nikolai Gogol
“ But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers. Nikolai Gogol
“ However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. Nikolai Gogol
“ Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless. Nikolai Gogol
“ The fair-haired man was one of those people in whose character there is at first sight a certain obstinacy. Before you can open your mouth, they are already prepared to argue and, it seems, will never… Nikolai Gogol
“ It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked… Nikolai Gogol
