All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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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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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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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 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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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