When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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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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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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