Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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