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.
MAXIM GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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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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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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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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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.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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