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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

— Maxim Gorky The I.V.Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal (1934)

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There — you say — truth! Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

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.

One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

The Zykovs (1914)

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man — who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

The Lower Depths (1902)

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