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Even a bad man is better than a good book.

Maxim Gorky

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Bitter Creature Human Hungry Life Taste
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
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
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Earth Heaven People Pilgrimage
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Blood Drown Sea Truth
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
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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Age Count Marriage
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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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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Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
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
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
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
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Home Land Man Old Place Warm
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Better Friendship Future Himself Live Man Positivity
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
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
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
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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Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
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

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

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