Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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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 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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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