When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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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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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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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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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