Quotes from Gogol Nikolai Gogol

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion

So here we are once more in the wilds, and once more we've come upon some out of the way corner. But what a wilderness, and what an out of the way corner!

For a loaf is something baked and a nose is something different.