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.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Every new time will give its law.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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