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!
MAXIM GORKYRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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 everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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