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

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Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.26, Vintage

Nikolai Gogol

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“Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections”
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
“I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.”

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“Itâ€™s time to write dangerous music. Itâ€™s time to take risks. Itâ€™s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. Itâ€™s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.”
“There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.”
“Russia remains an adversary to the United States. We have some overlapping interests. It would be better if our relationship was better. But our relationship is not good right now because of Vladimir Putin. There are steps that I think that we should be taking that we should have taken under the Obama administration. For instance, providing defensive weaponry to Ukraine. I encourage the President and the administration to take a look at those steps.”

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“The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.”
“Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.”

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