Nyikolaj Vasziljevics Gogol idézet (39 idézet, oldal 2)

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Nyikolaj Vasziljevics Gogol: Idézetek angolul

“They insist that an author should write in the strictest, purest and noblest language: in short, they expect the Russian language to drop from the clouds, already refined, and that it should come naturally to the lips, so that all they have to do is to open their mouth and stick out their tongue. It goes without saying, of course, that the feminine half of the human species is very wise; but it must be confessed that our respected readers are even wiser.”

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Nikolai Gogol könyv Dead Souls

Dead Souls (1842)

“[P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.”

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Nikolai Gogol könyv Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman (1835)

“The reason why Proshka wore such large boots can be explained at once: Plyushkin kept only one pair of boots for all of his servants, however numerous they were, and they always stood in the hall.”

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Nikolai Gogol könyv Dead Souls

Forrás: Dead Souls (1842), Chapter VI

“Apparently that does sometimes happen. Apparently even men like Chichikov are transformed into poets for a few moments in their lives: though the word "poet" would be an exaggeration here.”

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Nikolai Gogol könyv Dead Souls

Forrás: Dead Souls (1842), Chapter VIII

“[Final lines] mother, mother, save your unhappy son! Let a tear fall on his aching head! See how they torture him! Press the poor orphan to your bosom! He has no rest in this world; they hunt him from place to place.

Mother, mother, have pity on your sick child! And do you know that the Bey of Algiers has a wart under his nose?”

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Nikolai Gogol könyv Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman (1835)

“Among a number of intelligent suggestions there was finally this one too, strange as it may seem, that Chichikov might be Napoleon in disguise…”

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Nikolai Gogol könyv Dead Souls

Forrás: Dead Souls (1842), Chapter X

“…it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.”

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Nikolai Gogol

A letter to Zhukovsky, January 1848, quoted in Sculpting in Time (p49) by Andrei Tarkovsky

“I shall laugh my bitter laugh.”

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Nikolai Gogol

Epitaph on Gogol's tombstone

“"Turn around, son! What a funny figure you are! Are those priests' cassocks you are wearing? And do they all go about like that at the academy?" With these words old Bulba greeted his two sons who had been studying at the Kiev college and had come home to their father.”

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Nikolai Gogol

"Taras Bulba" (1835)

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