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.
MAXIM GORKYThe 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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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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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 everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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