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.
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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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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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