Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYThe higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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.
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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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