All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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!
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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