Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Every new time will give its law.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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