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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Topic

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

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1878. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina. Translated by Richard Pevar and Larissa Volonkhonsky. Penguin, 2004.

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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?

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Topic
Purpose of art

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
What Is Art?
Medium
Essay
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? 1897, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.

Another quote from Anna Karenina

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Topic
Family dysfunction Family Parents and children

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
Anna Karenina
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1877 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. The Russian Messenger, 1878.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Constance Garnett. Modern Library, 2000.

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

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Братья Карамазовы (Brat'ya Karamazovy) [The Brothers Karamazov]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879-Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Picador, 2021, pt. 2, bk. 5, ch. 5.

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson

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Freedom Political violence

Author

Thomas Jefferson
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1787 1780s 18th century
Era
American Revolutionary Period
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "Letter to William Stephens Smith." 13 Nov. 1787.