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Quotation from The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
“Whatever may be said to the contrary, such cases do occur--rarely, it is true, but now and then actually.”
The Nose, Part III, trans. Claud Field (1916)

The closing words of the story.
Citation: "Whatever may be said to the contrary, such cases do occur--rarely, it is true, but now and then actually." — Nikolai Gogol, The Nose, Part III, trans. Claud Field (1916). (id gogol-the-nose-q5)
Portrait: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, Public domain.
