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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.

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
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
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
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Drive Organism Revolution Skin
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
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
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
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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Dog Kill Master Oneself
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Bush Garden Goodness Peace Quiet
What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Better Children Way Writing
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself

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