All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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 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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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