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'Life is always surprising us - not by its rich, seething layer of bestial refuse - but by the bright, healthy and creative human powers of goodness that are forever forcing their way up through it. It is those powers that awaken our indestructible hope that a brighter, better and more humane life will once again be reborn.'
Maxim Gorky, from the Penguin Classics version of My Childhood, translated by Ronald Wilks.
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