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.
MAXIM GORKYThere 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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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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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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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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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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