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“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories

“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories

“Ever peaceful be you slumber
Though your days were few in number
On this earth-spite took its toll-
Yet shall heaven have your soul
With pure love we did regard you
For your loved one did we guard you
But you came not to the groom
Only to a chill dark tomb”
― Alexander Pushkin, The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights