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?
MAXIM GORKYWhen the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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We 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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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