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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Age Count Marriage
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
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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Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Act Hungry Satisfaction
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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Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Goal Myself Person Pursue Society Truth
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY

Dog Kill Master Oneself
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Angry One Liner Quick
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Bad Better Book Goodness Man
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Healing Soul Truth Wound

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