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Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin is the brother of Marya Nikolaevna Zhivago and the uncle and caregiver of Yuri Andreevich Zhivago. A former priest, Nikolai Nikolaevich is a Christian mystic-socialist and prolific writer who becomes an important figure in the revolutionary movement. Exiled after the 1905 Revolution, he returns in 1917 as a supporter of the Bolsheviks, despite the incongruity of his Christianity with their atheistic interpretation of communism.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin Quotes in Doctor Zhivago
The Doctor Zhivago quotes below are all either spoken by Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin or refer to Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 6: The Moscow Encampment
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His friends had become strangely dull and colorless. None of them had held on to his own world, his own opinion. They were much brighter in his memories. Apparently he had overestimated them earlier.
As long as the order of things had allowed the well-to-do to be whimsical and eccentric at the expense of the deprived, how easy it had been to mistake for a real face and originality that whimsicality and right to idleness which the minority enjoyed while the majority suffered.
But as soon as the lower strata arose and the privileges of the upper strata were abolished, how quickly everyone faded, how unregretfully they parted with independent thinking, which none of them, evidently, had ever had!
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin Quotes in Doctor Zhivago
The Doctor Zhivago quotes below are all either spoken by Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin or refer to Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 6: The Moscow Encampment
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His friends had become strangely dull and colorless. None of them had held on to his own world, his own opinion. They were much brighter in his memories. Apparently he had overestimated them earlier.
As long as the order of things had allowed the well-to-do to be whimsical and eccentric at the expense of the deprived, how easy it had been to mistake for a real face and originality that whimsicality and right to idleness which the minority enjoyed while the majority suffered.
But as soon as the lower strata arose and the privileges of the upper strata were abolished, how quickly everyone faded, how unregretfully they parted with independent thinking, which none of them, evidently, had ever had!
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