Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYThe 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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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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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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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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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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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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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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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