Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYHappiness 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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Every new time will give its law.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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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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