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.
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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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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