Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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