Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
MAXIM GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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