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Quotation from The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
“In these moving words, other words resounded--“I am thy brother.””
The Overcoat, The Cloak, trans. Unattributed translation, Everyman's Library (1918)
A young clerk, years later, remembers Akaky's plea and hears in it an appeal to common humanity.
Citation: "In these moving words, other words resounded--“I am thy brother.”" — Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat, The Cloak, trans. Unattributed translation, Everyman's Library (1918). (id gogol-the-overcoat-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, Public domain.
