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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.

Maxim Gorky

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
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
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
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity
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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Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Angry One Liner Quick
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
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
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
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman 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

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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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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