The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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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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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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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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