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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

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
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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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
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
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Blood Drown Sea 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
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Act Hungry Satisfaction
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
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Care Love Oneself
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKY

Age Count Marriage
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
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
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
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
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
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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
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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Acceptance Disgusting Earth Himself Misery
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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Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKY

Class Force Growth Intellectual

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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