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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

Maxim Gorky

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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Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
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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Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
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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Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Home Land Man Old Place Warm
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Bitter Creature Human Hungry Life Taste
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Age Count Marriage
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Man Praise Whole Woman Word
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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Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
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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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Better Friendship Future Himself Live Man Positivity
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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Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
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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Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
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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Earth Heaven People Pilgrimage
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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Goal Myself Person Pursue Society Truth
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Born Children Future Mom Thinking
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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Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
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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Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself

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