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.
MAXIM GORKYLet 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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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