Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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