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I agree with no man's opinions... I have some of my own.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

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Topic

Thinking for oneself

Speaker

Yevgény Vasílevich Bazárov

Author

Ivan Turgenev

Source

Fathers and Sons

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. "Отцы и дети [Fathers and Sons]." The Russian Messenger, 1862.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, translated by Richard Freeborn. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Truly, I think I should go mad if it weren't for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Topic

Music

Author

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Source

Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Medium

Letter

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illyich. Letter to Nadezhda von Meck. c. 23 Nov. 1877.

Between "God exists" and "There is no God" lies a whole enormous field which a true sage has great difficulty in crossing. But a Russian knows only one of these two extremes and the middle between them doesn't interest him, which is why he knows nothing or very little... A good man's indifference is as good as any religion.

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Topic

Existence of God God

Author

Anton Chekhov

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Russian

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Diary entry. c. 1885.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov and Reminiscences of Chekhov, translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. University Press of the Pacific, 2002.