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Quotation from The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
“There you are wrong, respected sir; I am myself.”
The Nose, Part II, trans. Claud Field (1916)

The nose's reply when Kovaloff tells it that it belongs on his face.
Citation: "There you are wrong, respected sir; I am myself." — Nikolai Gogol, The Nose, Part II, trans. Claud Field (1916). (id gogol-the-nose-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, Public domain.
