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.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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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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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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 the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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