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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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This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold it is time!
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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