Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Intellectual 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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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