The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYWe kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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.
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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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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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