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Even a bad man is better than a good book.

Maxim Gorky

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
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
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
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.
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Care Love Oneself
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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Brother Himself Live Money Person
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
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Man Praise Whole Woman Word
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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Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
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
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
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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Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

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