Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKYIntellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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