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.
MAXIM GORKYHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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