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.
MAXIM GORKYProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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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 work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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