All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
MAXIM GORKYThere 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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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.
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