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 GORKYSilence 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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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