Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYIntellectual 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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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 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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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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