Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYAll 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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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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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Every new time will give its law.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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