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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Maxim Gorky

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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Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Healing Soul Truth Wound
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Class Force Growth Intellectual
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
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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Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
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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Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Angry One Liner Quick
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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Bush Garden Goodness Peace Quiet

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