Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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