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Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Maxim Gorky

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.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
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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Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
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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Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Care Love Oneself
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
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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Class Force Growth Intellectual
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
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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Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
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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Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

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