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Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

  • rebeklyhas quoted3 days ago
    “To at­tain any­thing, Paul Ivan­ovitch, one needs to have been born un­der a lucky star.”
  • rebeklyhas quoted3 days ago
    Ah, it is a com­mon thing for a man who is tak­ing a sol­it­ary walk so to de­tach him­self from the irk­some real­it­ies of the present that he is able to stir and to ex­cite and to pro­voke his ima­gin­a­tion to the con­cep­tion of things he knows can never really come to pass!
  • rebeklyhas quoted3 days ago
    He also dreamed of little des­cend­ants who should per­petu­ate the name of Chichikov; per­haps a frol­ic­some little boy and a fair young daugh­ter, or pos­sibly, two boys and quite two or three daugh­ters; so that all should know that he had really lived and had his be­ing, that he had not merely roamed the world like a spectre or a shadow; so that for him and his the coun­try should never be put to shame
  • rebeklyhas quoted3 days ago
    f a wan­der­ing life he was tem­por­ar­ily weary, and to rest, even for a month, in such a beau­ti­ful spot, and in sight of green fields and the slow flower­ing of spring, was likely to be­ne­fit him also from the hy­gienic point of view.
  • rebeklyhas quoted3 days ago
    Lastly, as he in­spec­ted the lib­rary and dilated on books in gen­eral, he con­trived an op­por­tun­ity to ob­serve that lit­er­at­ure safe­guarded a man from a tend­ency to waste his time. In short, the few words of which he de­livered him­self were brief, but in­vari­ably to the point. And this dis­cre­tion of speech was out­done by his dis­cre­tion of con­duct.
  • rebeklyhas quoted4 days ago
    Then sud­denly the dreamer would per­ceive, to his sur­prise, that the pen had ex­ecuted the por­trait of a maiden whose pic­ture no artist could ad­equately have painted; and there­with his des­pond­ency would be­come greater than ever, and, be­liev­ing that hap­pi­ness did not ex­ist on Earth, he would re­lapse into in­creased en­nui, in­creased neg­lect of his re­spons­ib­il­it­ies.
  • rebeklyhas quoted5 days ago
    Yet age suc­ceeds to age, and our cal­low youth still lies wrapped in shame­ful sloth, or strives and struggles to no pur­pose. God has not yet given us the man able to sound the call.
  • rebeklyhas quoted5 days ago
    Lastly, with eye­brows knit­ted, and face turned to scan the zenith, he would drink in the smell of the fields, and fall to listen­ing to the winged pop­u­la­tion of the air as from earth and sky alike the man­i­fold mu­sic of winged creatures com­bined in a single har­mo­ni­ous chorus
  • rebeklyhas quoted5 days ago
    He lacked some­thing; and though he could not di­vine what it was, the situ­ation brought about was the com­mon one of the barin fail­ing to un­der­stand the peas­ant, and the peas­ant fail­ing to un­der­stand the barin, and both be­com­ing dis­af­fected.
  • rebeklyhas quoted5 days ago
    In the same way he found that, when it came to a ques­tion of dis­pens­ing justice and of ad­just­ing dis­putes, the host of jur­idical sub­tleties with which the pro­fess­ors had provided him proved ab­so­lutely use­less. That is to say, the one party lied, and the other party lied, and only the devil could have de­cided between them
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