When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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