Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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