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.
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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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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