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Quotation from The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
“Accordingly, the reader can judge for himself what his sensations were when he found in his face, instead of a fairly symmetrical nose, a broad, flat vacancy.”
The Nose, Part II, trans. Claud Field (1916)
After describing Kovaloff's ambitions, the narrator turns to his discovery.
Citation: "Accordingly, the reader can judge for himself what his sensations were when he found in his face, instead of a fairly symmetrical nose, a broad, flat vacancy." — Nikolai Gogol, The Nose, Part II, trans. Claud Field (1916). (id gogol-the-nose-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, Public domain.
