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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
MAXIM GORKY

Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
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?
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKY

Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Care Love Oneself
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKY

Home Land Man Old Place Warm
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKY

Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Children Way Writing
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKY

Bad Better Book Goodness Man
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Material Natural Process
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY

Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY

Dog Kill Master Oneself

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

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