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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
Anton Chekhov
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Our planet
is poorly equipped
for delight.
One must snatch
gladness
from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Humanity has no force more powerful and victorious than science.
Maxim Gorky
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Many men are like unto sausages: whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
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Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.
Leonid Andreyev
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"Which is more useful, the Sun or the Moon?" asks Kuzma Prutkov, the renowned Russian philosopher, and after some reflection he answers himself: "The Moon is the more useful, since it gives us its light during the night, when it is dark, whereas the Sun shines only in the daytime, when it is light anyway."
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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Frossia's husband had the ability to feel the voltage of an electric current like a personal emotion. He animated everything that his hands or mind touched, so he really understood the flow of forces in any piece of mechanism and could actually feel the painful, patient resistance of the metal body of a machine.
Andrei Platonov
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