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.
MAXIM GORKYEverywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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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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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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