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

From

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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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Topic
The masses The human condition

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Source
Economy Walden
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Another quote originally in Russian

But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic
Decline of religion Death of God Existence of God God

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Question
Language
Russian
Time
1880 1880s 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.