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?
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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