| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 85090a3 | A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. | literature nikolai-gogol russian-literature | Nikolai Gogol | |
| 4117ee5 | "Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose." | gogol nikolai-gogol the-double | Vladimir Nabokov |