The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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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.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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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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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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