
Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man. —
Nikolai A. Berdyaev

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. —
Nikolai Gogol

How dared you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose? —
Nikolai Gogol

The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little. —
Nikolai Gogol

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before. —
Nikolai Gogol

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. —
Nikolai A. Berdyaev

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide. —
Nikolai Berdyaev

Would he need to consider my feelings if at any point he should feel minded to blame —
Nikolai Gogol

I want to kiss you," Nikolai said. "But I won't. Not until you're thinking of me instead of trying to forget him. —
Leigh Bardugo

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter. —
Nikolai Gogol

Philosophy ... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence. —
Nikolai Berdyaev

In the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. —
Nikolai Berdyaev

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all —
Nikolai Gogol

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want —
Nikolai Gogol

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. —
Nikolai A. Berdyaev

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch. —
Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Whatever you find, you also find the fear that you may lose it. Whatever you fall in love with fills you with the sorrow of its loss... —
St. Nikolai Velimirovich

I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. Nikolai Fomich Kalugin, father —
Svetlana Alexievich

Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen —
Nikolai Grozni

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. —
Nikolai A. Berdyaev

In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling. —
Nikolai Leskov

But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers. —
Nikolai Gogol

One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. —
Nikolai Gogol

And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted."
"That's hardly limiting," he said. —
Leigh Bardugo