Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYWhen 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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only 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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Every new time will give its law.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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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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