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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Healing Soul Truth Wound
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKY

Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Credit Goodness Myself
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKY

Man Praise Whole Woman Word
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKY

Act Hungry Satisfaction
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKY

Home Land Man Old Place Warm
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKY

Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing

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