There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in one another, when each will he a star to the other, and when each will listen to his fellow man as to music. The free men will walk upon the earth, men great in their freedom. They  will walk with open hearts, and the heart of each will he pure of envy and greed, and therefore all mankind will be without malice and there will he nothing to divorce the heart from reason. Then life will be one great service to man! His figure will he raised to lofty heights for to free men all heights are attainable. Then we shall live in truth and freedom and in beauty, and those will be accounted the best who will the more widely embrace the world with their hearts, and whose love of it will he the profoundest, for in them is the greatest beauty. Then will life be great, and the people will be great who live that life. —Maxim Gorky  (03/02/02)
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