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.
MAXIM GORKYThe 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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God 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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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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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