The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYWhat 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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Every new time will give its law.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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?
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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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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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