Taras Bulba and Other Tales Quotes

“...the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses.”
― Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Taras Bulba and Other Tales

“Ukrainian was to Gogol "the language of the soul," and it was in Ukrainian songs rather than in old chronicles, of which he was not a little contemptuous, that he read the history of his people.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba and Other Tales