Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYEverybody, 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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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