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

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
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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Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Better Children Way Writing
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Blood Drown Sea Truth
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity
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
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Brother Himself Live Money Person
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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Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
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
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself

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