You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKYTwo forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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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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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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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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