The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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 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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Even a bad man is better than a good 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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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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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