Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
MAXIM GORKYIt is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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