Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKYWe 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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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