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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Maxim Gorky
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Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable love your fellows console the afflicted pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - Swan Song is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
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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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