One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYThere 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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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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