The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
—Nikolai Gogol
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
—Nikolai Gogol
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
—Nikolai Gogol
There exists a kind of laughter, which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
—Nikolai Gogol
Topics: Laughter
And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, 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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