What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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