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.
MAXIM GORKYIn 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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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 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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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