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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.

Maxim Gorky

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
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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Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
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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Dog Kill Master Oneself
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Blood Drown Sea Truth
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
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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Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
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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Drive Organism Revolution Skin
When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
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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Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
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
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Born Children Future Mom Thinking
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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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Goal Myself Person Pursue Society Truth
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
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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Age Count Marriage
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
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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Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
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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Care Love Oneself
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Better Children Way Writing
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself

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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