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.
MAXIM GORKYPolitics 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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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