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.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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