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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Maxim Gorky

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
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Healing Soul Truth Wound
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity
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
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
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
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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Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
Every new time will give its law.
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Law One Liner Time
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
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
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
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
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
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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Drive Organism Revolution Skin
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right

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