“Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.” — Nikolai Gogol Quote

“Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.”

“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.”

“They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.”

“Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.”

“Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.”

“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”

“The past was past; whatever it had been, it was no more at hand. Whatever its consequences, time would close over them; they would all in a few years be as if they had never been, and she herself grassed down and forgotten. Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, no sickened because of her pain.”

“while you are making up your mind the time and opportunity is slipping away”

“even the slightest stir in the broad”

“A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.”

“Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.”

“One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.”