Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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 can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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