Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYThe 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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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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