“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 , book Dead Souls

Vol. I, ch. 7
Dead Souls (1842)

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