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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.

Maxim Gorky

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
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
Every new time will give its law.
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Law One Liner Time
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
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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Goal Myself Person Pursue Society Truth
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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
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
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
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
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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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
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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Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
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
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
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

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