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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.

Maxim Gorky

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
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
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
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
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Age Count Marriage
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Acceptance Disgusting Earth Himself Misery
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY

Contemporary Drink Writing
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKY

Drive Organism Revolution Skin
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKY

Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKY

Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKY

Bitter Creature Human Hungry Life Taste
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
MAXIM GORKY

Blood Drown Sea Truth
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Bad Better Book Goodness Man
Every new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKY

Law One Liner Time

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