Another’s soul is a dark forest.

Ivan Turgenev

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Topic

Limits of knowledge Connecting with others Intimacy

Speaker

Mikhail Alexandrovitch Rakitin

Author

Ivan Turgenev

Source

A Month in the Country

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

Russian

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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Russia Asia

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Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Two Women. 1855, act 1.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. A Month in the Country. Oxford University Press, 1991, act 1.

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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Topic
Free will Decisions and choices Effects of the past

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Medium
Essay
Genre
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Language
German
Time
1852 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Verso, 2019.

Another quote originally in Russian

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic
Human needs Worship

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Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.