Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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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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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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 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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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