If they don't think, people act senselessly.

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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

I lived and languished.

I lived and languished.

I have a trend of my own.

I have a trend of my own.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin,...

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin,...

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms...

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms...

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to...

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to...

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

We hate our squalor.

We hate our squalor.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth -...

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth -...

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

My body gets weak without truth.

My body gets weak without truth.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.