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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
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
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.
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Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
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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Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
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
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
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Class Force Growth Intellectual
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKY

Brother Himself Live Money Person
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
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
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
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

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