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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?

Maxim Gorky

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKY

Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKY

Age Count Marriage
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
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY

Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKY

Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKY

Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Credit Goodness Myself
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Care Love Oneself
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Healing Soul Truth Wound
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKY

Devastation Evidence Man Root
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
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!
MAXIM GORKY

Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKY

Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKY

Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKY

Freedom Lying Man Master Religion

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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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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