Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Копаясь в своей душе, мы часто выкапываем такое, что там лежало бы незаметно.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Self-discovery Introspection

Speaker

Alexei Alexandrovich

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Anna Karenina

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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Language
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Time
1937 1930s 20th century
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Stalin, Joseph. "Marxism VS. Liberalism: An Interview." Interviewed by H. G. Wells. New Century Publishers, Sept. 1937.

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