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Between "God exists" and "There is no God" lies a whole enormous field which a true sage… — Anton Chekhov

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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.

Anton Chekhov
1921
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1921
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Anton Chekhov
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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.
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Chekhov, Anton. Diary entry. c. 1885.

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